Comment on English, old

• IndiBrony@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  • þe olde

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  • SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Always mad that typesetters got lazy, and we dropped Thorn from our alphabet. Everyone is all “ye olde English” snark snark…that’s cause they dropped thorn and used y instead…it’s still a Th sound…god…why can’t you people be nerds?!

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    • rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They weren’t lazy, they were French, IIRC

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      • FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yup, England had a Frenchaboo period after 1066 that lasted quite a while

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      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        why did you just repeat the same thing twice?

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      it annoys me so much how people say “yee oldee”, it’s literally just supposed to be pronounced like normal, but with stress on “the”, like “thee”

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  • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    dat thorn tho

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    • name_NULL111653@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      *þat þorne þough…

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      • rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        *ðat þorne ðough…

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      • itsnicodegallo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Hot.

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