Meaning of heavy-metal umlaut | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [B2]

Examples

“One of many acts of delinquency promoted by Mötley Crüe is free use of the heavy-metal umlaut with reckless disregard for lïnguïstïc cönventiöns.”

“• 1848 • Branwell Brontë, the only brother of literature’s famous Brontë sisters, dies of tuberculosis. Branwell was a hard-partying alcoholic and probably a drug addict—as you could no doubt tell from the bad-ass heavy-metal umlaut over the “e” in his name.”

“His bag was graffed up with band names I didn’t recognize—lightning bolts and heavy-metal umlauts.”

“All scaling is relative to the upper-left corner of the text. In other words, as the text gets larger or smaller, the upper-left corner of the text remains in place. This might be a little hard to see because the upper-left corner that remains in place is actually a little above the horizontal stroke of the first ‘T’ in the text string, in the area reserved for diacritics such as accent marks and heavy-metal umlauts.”

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