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[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 31 points 1 day ago

Is there a reason that you use some character (I'm afraid I don't know the name of it) wherever you would otherwise use "th"? I can't guess if it's some kind of technical issue with federated text, something from a different language you're incorporating, or one of those "I think we should add x symbol to the language so I'll use it to draw attention to the effort" deals, like with the people that use the combined !? symbols whenever both are relevant at once.

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 51 points 1 day ago

It's a thorn, a letter making a th sound. Still in use in Icelandic, I think. In English, it's archaic at best.

Fun fact, when it fell out of use, the letter Y was used to replace it for a while. So when you see something saying "ye olde", verbally it's still "the old".

[-] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 day ago

I actually always wondered about the y in old texts. Thanks!

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

What ð heck are are you talking about, it looks normal. To me. Maybe ðeres someðing wrong wið your computer.

[-] elliot_crane@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

I’m probably doing exactly what they want here (e.g. having a conversation about it), but that letter is called “Eth” and was the Old English way of spelling the “th” sound: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eth

A number of linguistic buffs want to bring it back to the modern English alphabet.

[-] greybeard@lemmy.one 7 points 1 day ago

A møøse once bit my sister.

[-] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 17 hours ago

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[-] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 0 points 23 hours ago

Is there a reason that you use some character (I'm afraid I don't know the name of it) wherever you would otherwise use "th"?

Passive aggressive typing.

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