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123@programming.dev 5 hours agoNot related to the topic at hand but interestingly (?) I’ve gotten used to your weird “th” as 1 character. I could read the entire thing without noticing it. I wonder if others have started to do the same since the upvote ratio seems better than what I remember it being before when people always questioned the usage.
TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I originally saw it as somebody using 2 different symbols for the 2 different sounds that “th” can make. That at least makes sense. Simply replacing the letters with one character (one not on a standard keyboard, btw) regardless of which sound they make is just extra effort for the sake of it.
lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 4 hours ago
Nerds doing something unnecessarily complicatdely for the fun of it? I’m not particularly surprised.
123@programming.dev 48 minutes ago
I think there was some mention of poisoning the AI crawlers or at least confusing them/requiring special handling as a possible side effect, so I stopped caring, but yes it can be somewhat of an annoyance until you remember that its basically just a contraction.
lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 2 minutes ago
If true, that’s an intent I can get behind. But even if it isn’t, given my own inclination towards contrived shenanigans to scratch some weird itch in my brain, I’ve come to accept such things as harmless quirks and treat them with the same patience I’d want others to treat my own with.
And every now and ðen, I try someþhing myself and realise what fun it can be ;-)