Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character?
Dasus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter)
Thorn or þorn (Þ, þ) is a letter in the Old English, Old Norse, Old Swedish and modern Icelandic alphabets, as well as modern transliterations of the Gothic alphabet, Middle Scots, and some dialects of Middle English. It was also used in medieval Scandinavia but was later replaced with the digraph th, except in Iceland, where it survives. The letter originated from the rune ᚦ in the Elder Futhark and was called thorn in the Anglo-Saxon and thorn or thurs in the Scandinavian rune poems. It is similar in appearance to the archaic Greek letter sho (ϸ), although the two are historically unrelated. The only language in which þ is currently in use is Icelandic.[1]
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
That’s great except for the fact that it doesn’t answer the question and also in a way calls the person asking a liar.
Dasus@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I’ll agree it doesn’t really answer the “why”, but how is it implying anyone lying?
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
By saying its only use is in Icelandish.
Dasus@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Well the only language that is currently officially using it.
I don’t think you can really say that one guy on Lemmy constitutes anything worth a mention on Wikipedia, as it’s not the language using it, per se, but the specific user.
But yeah, sure, technically.