[ccppurcell]

Rock dots? You mean diacritics? Yeah someone invented them: the ancient Greeks, idiöt.

[RHSeeger]

It's not the character, its the way / context in which it's used

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_umlaut

[ccppurcell]

I know what he was referring to. But the use case is obviously languages other than English, not the Motörhead fan club newsletter.

[topaz0]

Some combination of people misunderstood some other people's joke, not totally clear which and which.

[chr]

Yeah, that dude oughta read books and learn about computers, too.

[gerikson]

And live in a country where they use these in their alphabets.