I see…
That american urge to use umlauts, without using the sound it signifies, always baffled me.
There’s no umlaut in english, so it doesn’t signify any sound in english words, it’s merely a stylistic choice, kind of like writing a z at the end of a word instead of an s.
there’s the alternate spelling of naïve and it’s derived words, but they are rarely used nowadays
I disagree though, when you adopt from other languages the sounds follow. Of course designers don’t feel like that, but they would be wrong.
I’m pretty sure that’s not actually how language works.
That’s actually exactly how it works and how language evolves…foreign words are absorbed into a language, adding the new pronunciations to itself. There’s already a ton of English words that are either directly from foreign languages or heavily inspired by them, including their pronunciation and spelling.
But that’s not what we’re talking about. It’s extremely extremely rare for a language to adopt a new written character.