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.
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timroerstroem@feddit.dk 12 hours 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.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
mkwt@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Finally, these two letters, thorn and eth, dropped out of English a long time ago, but they’re still in Modern Icelandic today.
neclimdul@lemmy.world 10 hours 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.
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 12 hours 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 8 hours ago
Hell, yeah. I’m fluent in it myself.