# a little help

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 2, 2013, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-little-help/670197 "2013-10-02T17:51:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Asympotically\_fat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47c2d/32.png) [@Asympotically\_fat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asympotically_fat)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-little-help/670197/9 "2013-10-02T18:21:43Z")

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> [@Giraffe](#):
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> I’ll do it. I have a lot of really good ideas. For instance, how are you at typing umlauts?

I usually make an “¨” by taking the top two pixels from a “X”… you can’t make an umlaut without break a few x’s.

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