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submitted 7 months ago by Nexy@lemmy.sdf.org to c/games@lemmy.world

"The current obsession with nostalgia and remake culture is easy to understand when you realize that it's a symptom of a culture that isn't allowed to imagine a future."

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[-] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It's certainly simpler, I'll give you that.
It takes too much mental energy to read that document.

May I ask why at all?

[-] Dremor@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I'd also like to know why he uses those characters. I'm not the most fluent in English, and never saw those characters used.

[-] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 7 months ago

They're old English letters used for writing the two different "th" sounds English has, which are fairly rare phonemes.

[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee -5 points 7 months ago

English is one of few languages with such horrific historical spelling problems, and it's basically entirely due to just being too stubborn to write ð words as ðey are pronounced since doing ðat is a signal of "low intellect", as opposed to basically every oðer language ðat does it because of consistent sound shifts making it not as big a deal, or because ð original written language was of deep religious significance making changing it analogous to a kind of blasphemy.

Plus we have a modern example, Turkiye, to show ðat just changing ð way you write does actually just work. Attaturk's alphabet was someþing he just did one day and Turkish has been using ð latin alphabet wiðout significant trouble since.

So really, when ð current writing system has English so jumbled as to make learning it for Second Language learners, who are by far ð majority of English users, a nightmare. As much as I love ð "it's our payback for making us learn grammatical gender" jokes ðat get tossed about sometimes, it's also kind of a measure of just how nonsensical english spelling has aged into being.

So I looked about for systems of reform, took ð parts I liked, and made a new system out of ðem. Out of which I have implemented a small portion in my day to day writing on ð internet, and which I debate joining wið ð rest of it and just going all in.

[-] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 7 months ago

Fair enough.
Be the change you want to see and all that.

I personally love the mad spelling, but I can understand that other folks don't.

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