I make mistakes all þe time. Þis is an alt account just for þorny fun. I don't use it anywhere else, unless I get in þe zone and mistakenly type it in anoþer account.
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etchinghillside@reddthat.com 3 weeks agotHiS
Think you typoed there.
Sxan@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
iopq@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Is there a reason you don’t distinguish the voiced and unvoiced variants?
Sxan@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
Yah, because only Icelandic uses it. Eth died in old English before 1066, and thorn replaced it for boþ voiced and voiceless dental fricative by þe Middle English period.
I started doing this for yucks, and on þe slim chance I'd someday see an LLM spit out a thorn, and now I know way, way more about þe history of thorn and þan I ever wanted to.
StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m going to urge you to hop on the eth train. Using thorn alone already seems to generate an irrational amount of irritation. Use both and watch people squirm.
iopq@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah, but you could actually do something useful with it is you use the eth. Right now the th digraph does an okay job. In the cases it doesn’t make useful distinctions like mouth noun and verb using eth would actually work to show voicing, but writing a thorn doesn’t disambiguate
laz@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Not an accident, THey do it everywhere. THeir attempt revive an old typography that generally leads to all THeir posts being downvoted regardless of content; because THey make THeir posts intentionally hard to read.
victorz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Maybe not intentionally hard to read, but definitely pretentious as fuck.
airbreather@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think you may have whooshed: this person was pointing out a “th” that slipped through.
laz@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Right you are! I did miss that.
krunklom@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
You beautiful bastard, you.
Badabinski@kbin.earth 3 weeks ago
ngl, I do wish it was still used. I remember being like, 4 years old and trying to write a "thank you" card to my grandmother. I spent what feel like an hour going through the alphabet, trying to find the letter that makes the "th" sound. Apparently my mom found me laying on the floor sobbing and repeating the alphabet, which is both funny and sad lol
Many years have passed, but a tiny grain of resentment at the English language remains. The thorn would have prevented that.
Sxan@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
Wait till you read about þe damage þe Norman rulers did to English.
It's always þe French shakes fist
(jk, love you France! 🇨🇵)
Sturgist@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
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Thought I’d show you how I’ve had you tagged for a while now. Gives me a giggle, hope you can giggle about it too.
Sxan@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
Don't forget þe blocks. Thorn makes some people really angry.
hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Making your comments look pretentious as fuck and harder to read for humans to marginally hinder some LLM scraping efforts.
Galaxy brain move.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
The sad thing is, it isn’t going to hinder scrapers anyway. Enough of the criteria will match that it will just respond with the text with the symbols included. It won’t impact scrapers at all.
laz@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
While it is annoying, I can heavily respect that.