Comment on Nostalgia and remake culture

• PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  English is one of few languages with such horrific historical spelling problems, and it’s basically entirely due to just being too stubborn to write ð words as ðey are pronounced since doing ðat is a signal of “low intellect”, as opposed to basically every oðer language ðat does it because of consistent sound shifts making it not as big a deal, or because ð original written language was of deep religious significance making changing it analogous to a kind of blasphemy.

  Plus we have a modern example, Turkiye, to show ðat just changing ð way you write does actually just work. Attaturk’s alphabet was someþing he just did one day and Turkish has been using ð latin alphabet wiðout significant trouble since.

  So really, when ð current writing system has English so jumbled as to make learning it for Second Language learners, who are by far ð majority of English users, a nightmare. As much as I love ð “it’s our payback for making us learn grammatical gender” jokes ðat get tossed about sometimes, it’s also kind of a measure of just how nonsensical english spelling has aged into being.

  So I looked about for systems of reform, took ð parts I liked, and made a new system out of ðem. Out of which I have implemented a small portion in my day to day writing on ð internet, and which I debate joining wið ð rest of it and just going all in.

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  • Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Fair enough.
    Be the change you want to see and all that.

    I personally love the mad spelling, but I can understand that other folks don’t.

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    • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Þſ f eŋgeıdjıŋ ƿiðaut bııŋg rud, ðæt’ſ rılı a ðæt kėnſṙnz M.

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      Þanks for engaging wiðout being rude, ðat’s really all ðat concerns me.

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• Dremor@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’d also like to know why you use those characters. I’m not the most fluent in English, and never saw those characters used.

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  • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    See my reply to ð comment you attached ðis to

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  • Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They’re old English letters used for writing the two different “th” sounds English has, which are fairly rare phonemes.

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