Comment on apparently, the T button dosent exist for some people
JargonWagon@lemmy.world 1 week agoI think there’s a lot of change in written English that needs updating. I think the thorn is lowest priority, if not completely unnecessary lol
Comment on apparently, the T button dosent exist for some people
JargonWagon@lemmy.world 1 week agoI think there’s a lot of change in written English that needs updating. I think the thorn is lowest priority, if not completely unnecessary lol
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Right? Like “th” is one of the least ambiguous, most consistent letter groupings in English, a new letter for it doesn’t solve anything, and using the thorn character is actively worse for people with dyslexia. Let’s come up with a way to disambiguate soft-c vs. hard-c sounds instead, or make “ei”/“ie” more consistent.
zeca@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Language evolution is not so much directed by utility, is it?
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Not historically, no, which is part of the reason why English’s spelling “rules” are the way they are
JargonWagon@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Maybe we can develop our own Lemmy update to written English?
SippyCup@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
No. No. No no no no no no.
This is how we got Esperanto. DO YOU WANT THAT? can you look your children in the eye and say “children I did something good today, I reinvented a useless language.” CAN YOU DO THAT‽
JargonWagon@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Welp, that attitude is why the written portion of English hasn’t updated in a long time and is why it’s so bad. Also, English is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, wild to call it useless lol.
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