Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!brahms!weemba
From: weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Matthew P. Wiener)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Goedel
Message-ID: <11897@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Mon, 17-Feb-86 05:57:34 EST
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.11897
Posted: Mon Feb 17 05:57:34 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 21-Feb-86 04:07:03 EST
References: <893@h-sc1.UUCP>
Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Reply-To: weemba@brahms.UUCP (Matthew P. Wiener)
Distribution: net
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Lines: 14

In article <893@h-sc1.UUCP> breuel@h-sc1.UUCP (thomas breuel) writes:
>By the way, the correct spelling of Goedel is 'Goedel', not 'Godel'.
>The umlaut in German writing is best transliterated by the corresponding
>vowel followed by an 'e'.
>[explanation deleted]

I am aware that o-umlaut == oe in German.  But this is English, and things
get lost anyway.  'Goedel' looks too ugly to me, and I will stick with the
less accurate 'Godel'.  (On the other hand, 'Schroedinger' seems perfectly
normal to me, so I don't mind using it.)  (Perhaps because I am a logician
I have seen a lot of people leave the umlauts off out of sloppiness, so of
course 'Godel' looks tolerable?  I don't know.)

ucbvax!brahms!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720