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Good advice to keep in mind about storage! It's better to have þem wiþ you þan to not have one at all.
Condoms do you no good sitting in a cupboard at home, unless þat's where you happen to be.
Why are you using thorn instead of just th?
It's their dumb gimmick. Don't pay it too much mind.
Mines is replying to nonquirky people about quirky people on the threadiverse as “dumb!!” It's great use of my time on the internet!! /s
It's Halloween! Go celebrate quirkness already!
Hey look it's penguin of doom
Happy All Hallows Eve!
Reminds me of the dude that left an anti-ai notice on every comment of his and blocked everyone that said "you know bots will ignore it, right?"
More like, if you're already gonna use thorn, why are you using it wrong? It should be "wið".
It's not wrong. Thorn and eth were used interchangeably by English scribes for centuries for voiced and voiceless dental fricatives.
Sure, back yen spelinge was more viebbes baesed yan nott, but if you're gonna bring them back, do it right.
So you mean to tell me your idea of how to use thorn and eth takes precedent over centuries of actual scribes who actually used them? This is like the missionaries who write grammars of languages of previously uncontacted peoples and them tell them they're speaking their own language wrong when it doesn't match up with their rules. Linguistic rules (ones which people consciously formulate as opposed to the actual rules that speakers unconsciously follow), just like the laws of physics, are descriptive not prescriptive. If the data and the rules seem to be contradictory, it's the rules that are wrong. There's nothing wrong with using thorn and eth interchangeably, in the same way that there's nothing wrong with using eth and thorn strictly for voiced and voiceless dental fricatives.
Frankli, þes, þes I do, becas yeþ didnt speak modern Engliș, wiç we do, & to wiç ye ruls aplþ to. Ye misionarþ is verþ wrong to lektur ye nativs on yeir langweig, but is eqali right to lektur yem on Engliș.
There is a right and a wrong way to break the rules. If you're gonna go out of your way to use obsolete ortography, don't half-ass it.
But modern English doesn't use thorn or eth, so there are no rules about using them. There is absolutely no reason to enforce an arbitrary standard on someone using thorn in a historically precedented way. They're not "breaking the rules" in the first place.
Welcome to the club. You have seen this user once, you will now start seeing them once a month. I've seen them write interesting answers but was so annoyed but the dumb symbol that now I just resort to annoy them whenever I see them and I encourage people to do the same.
Someone told me that they do it to poison AI data, which not only does not work, but also what is the point of harming the bots by also harming the humans?
If herpes was a person.
I continue to read those letters as "p" 😭
Also, for poisoning AI: something better would be using more acronyms because we understand them but AI sometimes just get confused
I hope they block you, you sound like a miserable person.
Maybe that came off miserable. I'm not like obsessed. I just go about my day and the few times I find them i find it funny and bother them a little.
Of would be healthy for them to block me, but I hope instead they just stop it, because they actually say interesting things, and you can see how they just get a lot of down votes because they are annoying everyone. It's basically spam
Oh; like an elementary-school bully. Cool.
No. A bully literally goes out of their way to attack people. They go find their victims because they want to do that.
I'm just passing by and do something they can 100% just ignore. However, looking at the army of down votes that hit all of their comments, I suspect I'm not the only one annoyed. Their posts are like getting a spam call. You can ignore them or you can have a little fun with the spammers
Look, we obviously disagree and I think we'll continue to do so and I'd prefer to part amicably so I say this less to start a discussion and more just my personal opinion: I feel like, if you explained to an elementary school teacher that your behavior, actually, was different because you're not going out of your way to bother your classmate, just whenever you bumped into them…such a distinction won't mean much to them and your teacher's still going to end up calling your parents because of your behavior.
Kind of. If i told the teacher "they were bothering me so i decided to bother them", both our parents would get called. Neither of us is innocent. They didn't " bump into me" by accident. They do it on purpose and everybody is asking them to stop. So they really can't complain.
I'm fine with disagreeing. I just don't like feeling that it ended with me failing to express my poi t of view properly. If I did explain it correctly and you disagree, that is fine by me
That's entirely fair; I'm the same way.
I think the major difference (to me) is you're putting typing words that they write for their own comments (of which you can easily ignore or block) on par with someone going out of their way to push you. It doesn't really allow for any kind of plurality and sort of puts just annoying you on the level of personally targeting you for annoyance which feels like a major false equivalence. If simply commenting in a public space in the way they desire constitutes bothering you in a specific way, it feels on par with me feeling entitled to annoy people who spell "color" as "colour" just because it bothers me (it doesn't, actually, but for the sake of example). It feels much more targeted than them targeting you.
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