Comment on Nostalgia and remake culture

• PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    See my reply to ð comment you attached ðis to

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    • Dremor@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m gonna be honest with you, as a non-english speakers, this is unreadable, and kinda obnoxious.

      Please take into consideration that this is an international website, that people from many different countries go to in order to talk to each other. If someone suddenly decide to use his local letters to write, most readers will just not understand what you write. At best it makes you look pedantic, at worst intentionally trying to exclude others from talking with you.

      I can understand why others may be irritated by your behavior, albeit I’d condemn any attempt at brigading to harass you over it.
      If you feel like it, you can ask for a brigading check to see if some accounts are following you to downvote every ones of your posts, admins can see votes and got some tools to help detect such behavior.

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      • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Where do I ask for that?

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