Obscure Or Obvious?

[debka_notion]

Do you know what a doppelganger is? More accurately, how troubled should I be that many of my rabbinical school classmates a. don't know what a doppelganger is, and b. try to spell it as two words?

Just a thought from the insane place in my mind that is me trying to avoid exams...

Comments

[gimmelgirl.livejournal.com]

You forgot the accent over the a. And now I'm not sure I know how to do it on my computer.
:goes to figure out how to add accents on her computer:

[shirei-shibolim.livejournal.com]

Mac or PC?

[gimmelgirl.livejournal.com]

:shocked gasp:

You would even ASK?!
MAC, of course!!
Chas veSHALOM I would never use a pc!!!!

;o)

[shirei-shibolim.livejournal.com]

I guess I can't help you with you with your ä, then. :)

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

How does one umlaut with a PC? It sounds like a useful skill to have floating around in case I someday need it...

[margavriel.livejournal.com]

ä = ALT+0228
ë = ALT+0235
ï = ALT+0239
ö = ALT+0246
ü = ALT+0252

My fingers know these combinations by heart, except the ï (which hardly ever has a use in any language which I would be typing).

Is that an odd metaphor, for fingers to have a heart?

[shirei-shibolim.livejournal.com]

One doesn't umlaut so much as write the letter ä (or ö, or whatever). You can do it in one of two ways: either open the Character Map program, which allows you to select any character available in any given font, or hold down [Alt] and press the appropriate numerical sequence for a given character (which character map will tell you in case you don't know). Lowercase umlauted A, for example, is [Alt]+0228.