Comment on Nostalgia and remake culture

• PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hæv ė lᵫk yoṙſelf if y’ṙ intcrestid.

  Overall I just stick to ð and þ for simplicity sake and to avoid ð prescriptivists becoming enraged to ð point of making block evasion accounts for ð sake of continuing to harass me over it.

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  • Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s certainly simpler, I’ll give you that.
    It takes too much mental energy to read that document.

    Can I ask why at all?

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    • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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    • Dremor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        See my reply to ð comment you attached ðis to

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      • Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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• Zahille7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ya, like wtf? I got what they were saying based on context clues, but I swear I’ve been seeing more and more profiles that are trying to do a “thing.”

  Like this person with the typed characters, I’ve seen another user in comment threads who posts in the third person and refers to themselves as their fursona (scale-sona?), and of course the trolls.

  I guess I just don’t get it.

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  • Klear@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They want to be zany and cool. Nothing more to it.

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