Meine frau ... er, ah - my wife had relatives in Vienna who were quite knowledgeable about “die Hutten” (the Hutterite immigrants to America). Although their sermons are in German, they speak “Hutterisch”, a German dialect originally spoken in Carinthia and Tirol. It is not much changed from when they arrived here in the mid 18th century.
Austrian university researchers come here to study it!
Gruss Gott! (Sorry, ain’t got no umlaut on this here keyboard.)
sure you do
(stolen from the vast interwebs)
On a PC (Windows):
The fail-safe method using the ALT-key:
• Number Lock should be ON
• Use the left-side ALT key (for most keyboards; try the right if it doesn’t work)
• Hold down the ALT key and type a number on the number pad as follows (while holding the ALT key down). When you release the ALT key, you will have the following character:
ALT 0223 = ß
ALT 0228 = ä
ALT 0246 = ö
ALT 0252 = ü
ALT 0196 = Ä
ALT 0214 = Ö
ALT 0220 = Ü
There are other ways to type these characters, depending on your system settings and what word processor you’re using, but the above should work in all environments, even DOS if needed. But if you prefer some of the ‘easier’ methods, please do a web search or see this page, which is the best summary I’ve seen:
http://lrcnt.fas.harvard.edu/Resources/Documentation/accents.htm
On a Mac:
Use the OPTION key. Hold down OPTION and push ‘s’ to get ß. For the umlauted characters, hold down OPTION and push ‘u’. Release OPTION, then type the desired base letter (a, o, u, A, O, or U). The umlaut will appear over the letter you typed. (So to type ü, you should hold down OPTION, press u, then release OPTION and press u again.)
There is also a way to configure foreign keyboards in windows and then switch easily between german & english but you will need to look that one up yourself.
Grüß Gott!"
Regards,