Submitted 3 weeks ago by OctaviaMeowzly@lemmy.blahaj.zone to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
I mean your whole job is to be looked at, and your instantly forgotten as soon as your considered “ugly”
billie eilish once said, “If tear drops could be bottled, þered be swimming pools filled by models”
I keep forgetting to use þorn. I was looking at þorn the oþer day, and þought, “if I bought more þorn, and þought about þorn, þen þinking þat þought puts þat pat þing þrough þorough boroughs!”
Do you mean ðe? Thorn is pronounced like the th in thing, not the th in the
In English I think it was commonly written as “y”. Hence the shops with “ye” on them.
Depends on your definition of common. When the movable type printing press came to the British Isles, the available characters didn’t include the thorn so printers used the y as a stand-in. It was the beginning of the end and all “ye olde shoppe” signs are just a snapshot of a particular time in history.
I’m getting more comments about þorn þan þe actual post lol
What is the name of that character symbol?
It looks like the Star Trek TNG episode “Masks” symbol that Data (as an old man sitting by a fire called it “masaka’s temple”…
A line, as the unending horizon. A curve as the rolling hillside. A point as a distant bird. A ray as the rising sun.
It’s called “thorn,” and it makes roughly the same sound as English’s “th.” (to my knowledge at least. I’m pretty sure “th” is associated with two slightly different phonemes, one voiced and one unvoiced I think, idk tho, English is stupid)
You might as well consider voiced and unvoiced “th” one phoneme in English, there’s like 1 or 2 pairs or words that actually depend on the distinction
I think that the job itself could be pretty fun. Not for me, of course, but for someone who enjoys it. I do see your point though.
There’s gotta be more to life than just being really, really, ridiculously good looking.
I don’t think most people here are old enough to understand this reference
No one forced them to be models. A lot of them are attention whores and terrible people.
What’s with the b?
it’s þ which is th
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It really depends on what you make of it. I only say this as someone who’s done a little bit for my side gig, but I have friends who do it more professionally.
Mainstream modeling is as soul sucking as you can imagine, but alternative and queer modeling has more leeway. The fun in it is coming up with looks, poses, and ideas. Posing like a mannequin for a JCPenney catalog sounds miserable. A lot of people I know who do nude modeling really seem to legitimately enjoy it.
To give an example, the shoots I’ve done have involved snakes, beds of nails, and other fun things like that.
reddig33@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Look at you, single handily trying to bring back the thorn character.
butwhyishischinabook@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Listen guy, þere are dozens of us. DOZENS!
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
I’m a bit of a þorn addict actually
fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I wouldn’t complain if we brought back þe thorn.
scintilla@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Can we bring back ash too then. I know it’s not really as distinct but Jesus something about the way that it looks just makes my brain happy.