On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 12:14:26AM +0100, Christian Ridderström wrote: > [...] That *is* ubercool...
Just out of interest: I know this usage of 'uber' has 70 year old German roots as in 'Übermensch'. 'We' don't use it anymore so it seems to be a typical English thing nowadays. I just wonder whether dropping the umlaut is now part of this migration or whether 'übercool' would be acceptable English as well. Andre'