It did evolve and English got rid of thorn. This is regression.
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deacon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s a thorn, and indirectly why we say “ye olde” when evoking an old timey thing.
I don’t mind it. Obviously OP could understand well enough to complain about it. Why not make our alphabet more efficient? Language is never complete until it’s extinct.
I’m a fan of the long s too. Bring em l back says I.
scott@lem.free.as 10 months ago
limer@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
English removed too many nice things, all in the name of standardization and printing efficiency.
deacon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
One person’s regression is another’s renaissance.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Why not make our alphabet more efficient?
Will the real Noah Webster please stand up?
Language is never complete until it’s extinct.
Language either evolves or it arbitrarily splits. Guess which this one is.
deacon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Evolution?
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I like the þ but not the long s. Þ is actually useful when it clicks. Long s is just an “what if we had another letter for s thst looks like l and does nothing different or more efficient”
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Agreed. Big fan of þ and ð, but a third way to write a letter, that simultaneously looks like 3 other letters? Good move obsoleting that one.
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
The only long S I know of the the ß used in the german language. I’m a big fan, and use it frequently in my handwritten notes.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
‘ß’ is in fact a digraph of the long ‘s’ and ‘ʒ’, i.e. tailed ‘z’.
PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
I think they’re talking about the s in older documents being written differently, such that if you weren’t familiar, you might confuse it with an f. But only the first s in such cases that there were more than one.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
screams in dyslexia