Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character?

mrslt@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What is an improper use?

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  • mrslt@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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    • davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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”.

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      • mrslt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yes, but people also don’t generally speak today like they did back then, either.

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