[mech4bg]

How do you feel when someone badly appropriates a word like this and it gets really big, like Uber? :)

I understand why the umlaut gets dropped, but it super bugs me too - especially as it's as easy as dropping an 'e' next to the letter if you don't have an easy way to add an umlaut.

Keeping things slightly off-topic for a moment - I love Swiss German. I lived in Bavaria and speak reasonably fluent German, so I can understand bits of it, but it's mostly incomprehensible to me, but in a delightful way. Its 'sing-song' nature and fun pronunciation are the best.

I also found in Switzerland people were far more willing to tolerate and respond to my German than in Germany (where people tend to switch to English), which I very much appreciated when I was still learning the language.