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VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I love the whole thorn thing, but I do wish to see ð incorporated in its correct usage.

Like, “Þey’re” should be “Ðey’re.” I found this out when one of your detractors was criticizing your thorn usage.

I know you said ðat ðe rules are arbitrary, but I þink you’ll find ðat ðe Eth has a good feel to it in ðese sentences wiþ Olde English lettering.

Just my two cents. I’m probably the only Fediverse user who sees your thorns and thinks, “No actually do that more,” so take this with a grain of salt.

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CandleTiger@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I’m probably the only Fediverse user who sees your thorns and thinks, “No actually do that more,”

No, ðere are two of us.

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Sxan@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
If there was a chance thorn staged a return, I agree: eth should come along as well. Þey’re different sounds, and it’d align with a live language (Icelandic). For my purposes, thorn is enough.

I’m probably the only Fediverse user who sees your thorns and thinks, “No actually do that more,”

Actually not.

I think it’s demonstrable that there is a dedicated set of brigaders who downvote any comment containing thorns. It may be bots, since we live in a dead internet, because it’s consistent not only for my comments but also on anyone else who uses it. Several people just block me, and both are fine: this isn’t Reddit and votes mean bupkis; and blocking is specifically for hiding content you don’t want to see. However: I also get a fair amount of positive comments; those people are not invested in following me around and knee-jerk voting on every comment, so vote takes are deceiving - which is the which-of-why I generally ignore votes. You can decide for yourself which group has a healthier set of life priorities.

I approve of eth, but I’m not trying to change anything, and I’m limiting my experiment to thorn.

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SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I support this as an opportunity to improve on my very shallow knowledge about the icelandic language.

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- frostedtrailblazer@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  It’d be kinda fun if the Fediverse made its own hybrid English dialect. At the very least it would create a unique niche that’s only on the Fediverse. That alone would draw in some users to participate.
  
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GandalftheBlack@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Stop talking about the “correct” usage. This is an idea based on how it’s used in one particular context. The and thorn were used interchangeably by English scribes for centuries, so there’s nothing wrong with using thorn exclusively.

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- VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Okay. I didn’t mean it, I swear!
  
  In all seriousness, þanks for the information.
  
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  - GandalftheBlack@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    No worries! Sorry if I came across as overly abrasive about someþing þat doesn’t really matter, I just really dislike misguided prescriptivism
    
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