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Are metal umlauts the new left out vowels for Web 2.x? Will we see "flickr" renamed to "flïckër"?

Well, it's not really an 'ü', we are officially 'Duuble', not 'Düüble'. The dots above the 'u's are meant to complete the smiling faces :)

Well, I'm German. We do umlauts, we don't do smiles…

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