Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character?
mrslt@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I don’t know, but I downvote every improper use of the thorn.
Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character?
mrslt@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I don’t know, but I downvote every improper use of the thorn.
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
What is an improper use?
mrslt@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The thorn (Þ) represents the voiceless dental fricative (think the “th” sound in “think”, “thick”, “thistle”, and so on).
To represent the voiced dental fricative, (think the “th” sound in “these”, “there”, “weather”, and so on) use the eth (Ð), not the thorn.
davidagain@lemmy.world 10 months ago
In modern Icelandic, yes, and that’s certainly more pleasing, but historically thorn was also used for the voiced phoneme, and with the advent of printing press (which didn’t get imported with a thorn), it got written y, which is how you got “ye olde”.
mrslt@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yes, but people also don’t generally speak today like they did back then, either.