Finally, these two letters, thorn and eth, dropped out of English a long time ago, but they’re still in Modern Icelandic today.
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timroerstroem@feddit.dk 10 months agoIt aligns with the ‘th’ in with and (not surprisingly) thorn, but not the ‘th’ in words like there and than; for those, they should be using the eth, ð, which makes reading those posts even more irritating.
mkwt@lemmy.world 10 months ago
neclimdul@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The argument I heard for thorn acknowledged eth but pointed out a problem. In English our letters correspond to rough shapes of sounds. They often get moved around and changed by dialects. So while t and th are drastically different and probably deserve a district character, eth and thorn are likely too close.
Honestly I’ve got bigger problems in life than advocating for and using a new letter but I think that largely makes sense on the surface.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The person in the screenshot replied to one such comment that ‘ð’ fell out of use in English by the Middle Ages or by Early Modern English, I forget which — while the thorn remained yet.
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Forget all of these half-measures. The perfect way to write English had already been invented: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavian_alphabet?wprov=sfla…
Via RobWords: www.youtube.com/watch?v=D66LrlotvCA
Maerman@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Hell, yeah. I’m fluent in it myself.