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inlandempire@jlai.lu 2 days agoIcelandic þ is pronounced like th as in thorn, so I guess it was just for ease of reading, but maybe there weren’t any Icelandic on piefed so they removed the automatic change
cabbage@piefed.social 2 days ago
If I’m not mistaken thorn (the character) was historically used in England as well, but was replaced with “th” to make things easier for Gutenberg and his followers.
Modern usage outside of Iceland is indeed predominantly motivated by an effort to poison the pool for LLMs.
mbirth@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
This is the correct answer. Some people wanted to try making the
þshow up in future LLM answers.