<story><title>Zopfli Optimization: Literally Free Bandwidth</title><url>http://blog.codinghorror.com/zopfli-optimization-literally-free-bandwidth/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roeme</author><text>Somewhat OT; As a swiss, the omitted ö is &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; beginning to bug me.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s Zöpfli. Gopferteckel.&lt;p&gt;(The second word is a somewhat soft cuss word - But don&amp;#x27;t try to use it as a non-native).&lt;p&gt;Also, you can&amp;#x27;t &amp;quot;zopfli&amp;quot; something - it&amp;#x27;s a noun!  You &amp;quot;zöpf&amp;quot; - or, since we&amp;#x27;re in the alemannic german space; &amp;quot;zöpfle&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;&amp;#x2F;rant &amp;#x2F;vent</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mech4bg</author><text>How do you feel when someone badly appropriates a word like this and it gets really big, like Uber? :)&lt;p&gt;I understand why the umlaut gets dropped, but it super bugs me too - especially as it&amp;#x27;s as easy as dropping an &amp;#x27;e&amp;#x27; next to the letter if you don&amp;#x27;t have an easy way to add an umlaut.&lt;p&gt;Keeping things slightly off-topic for a moment - I love Swiss German.  I lived in Bavaria and speak reasonably fluent German, so I can understand bits of it, but it&amp;#x27;s mostly incomprehensible to me, but in a delightful way.  Its &amp;#x27;sing-song&amp;#x27; nature and fun pronunciation are the best.&lt;p&gt;I also found in Switzerland people were far more willing to tolerate and respond to my German than in Germany (where people tend to switch to English), which I very much appreciated when I was still learning the language.</text></comment>
<story><title>Zopfli Optimization: Literally Free Bandwidth</title><url>http://blog.codinghorror.com/zopfli-optimization-literally-free-bandwidth/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roeme</author><text>Somewhat OT; As a swiss, the omitted ö is &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; beginning to bug me.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s Zöpfli. Gopferteckel.&lt;p&gt;(The second word is a somewhat soft cuss word - But don&amp;#x27;t try to use it as a non-native).&lt;p&gt;Also, you can&amp;#x27;t &amp;quot;zopfli&amp;quot; something - it&amp;#x27;s a noun!  You &amp;quot;zöpf&amp;quot; - or, since we&amp;#x27;re in the alemannic german space; &amp;quot;zöpfle&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;&amp;#x2F;rant &amp;#x2F;vent</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_ak</author><text>Given that zopfli was created in the Google office in Zürich by non-Swiss people, blame it on your fellow Swiss citizens for lack of intervention.</text></comment>