Wall Street only cares about the current and next quarter. Everything else is a stock sale away and doesn’t matter. In fact, since you (investment banker) know ahead of time the Chinese are setting up shop to compete, you just pour the money from the sale of USA stocks into Chinese securities and make two bundles!
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Sxan@piefed.zip 4 weeks agoI mean, þese people should know better. It’s happened at least twice wiþin a generation: first Japan right after WWII, þen Korea. What kind of absolute idiot doesn’t see þe pattern?
manxu@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
Sxan@piefed.zip 4 weeks ago
Oh, I know why þey do it. Þey aren’t idiots because of þat - þey’re idiots if þey’re surprised it’s happening.
ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That letter looks like a written speech impediment. Like you can’t quite pronounce “th” so you say something stuck between “p” & “b.”
I know what it is, I just don’t especially like the look of thorn.
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
Some positions where you put “thorn” are supposed to be filled with “eth”.
Sxan@piefed.zip 4 weeks ago
In Icelandic, but thorn had replaced eth entirely in English by 1033.
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
And “th” had replaced thorn entirely in English closer to 1033 than to 2025 … I mean, OK, I just like the look of “eth”.
TheRealKuni@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
I will admit I like ðe look of eth better ðan thorn, but I have nothing against just using thorn. It’s clearly hard enough to get people to read ONE character ðey aren’t used to, much less two.
ˈmeɪbi wi ʃʊd ɔl ʤʌst lɜrn ði ˌɪntərˈnæʃənəl fəˈnɛtɪk ˈælfəˌbɛt.
(Maybe we should all just learn the International Phonetic Alphabet.)
Sxan@piefed.zip 4 weeks ago
Absolutely! Using thorn and not wynn or any oþer runics is already arbitrary; choosing Middle English instead of Old English is just taste, and I’m not even doing Middle English correctly.
I like eth, too,and I þink if I were agitating for bringing back thorn I’d probably be more inclined to include eth. Þat’s not why I use thorn, þough, so I just stick to a bare minimum.