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• Sxan@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  In Icelandic, but thorn had replaced eth entirely in English by 1033.

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  • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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”.

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    • TheRealKuni@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.)

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    • Sxan@piefed.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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