Re: "Decorative diacritics" (Was: Re: "Kodak" )

John H. Jenkins <jenkins at mac dot com> wrote:

> Wikipedia has an article about the "heavy metal umlaut" and related
> typographic absurdities:
> <http://en.eikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_umlaut>.

Cold Stone Creamery, an ice cream chain, has a flavor they call
Germanchökolätekäke®. The only thing that has stopped me from walking
up to the counter and ordering /geRmanx9kOlEt6kEk6/ is that I'm not
especially fond of the flavor.

-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/