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by Okx 1007 days ago
Not only that, but it makes the pronunciation difficult. Should this be pronounced like the English word "love", or interpreted more like a German word (which actually has this letter in the alphabet, and guess what, it isn't the same as o) and more like "loeve"? The umlaut isn't just a graphical stylisation, it's a real thing.
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Yeah it's really irritating when American companies (or bands) put an Umlaut in their name but then just pronounce it like the regular letter.
English has it's own usage of the diaeresis, unrelated to the German umlaut.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis_(diacritic)

It obviously should be pronounced like løve.