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[–] 8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

San tends to use letters like Þ to represent a "th" sound. The letter is an old english one that died out. Lots of people will downvote his comments (including ones that use standard letters) for...reasons? I'm honestly not sure why.

Personally I'm down with bringing back old school letters. English orthography is almost as bad as french.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    It's the wrong old English letter. Thorn is used for the th in thorn. The th in the and this is Eth. I might be a pedant, but I'm a pedant with standards.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    I'm not sure why you said it's the "wrong" old english letter. I only specified "th sound" for thorn.

    Also Eth and thorn were used interchangeably in old and middle english. Don't be a pedant without knowing the actual info especially since this is the 4th paragraph on wikipedia:

    The letter thorn was used in Old English very early on, as was Γ°, which was called eth. Unlike eth, thorn remained in common use through most of the Middle English period. Both letters were used for the phoneme /ΞΈ/, sometimes by the same scribe.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Although I don't downvote their comments, I'd rather, they put the effort to use those separate characters for the 2 voices.
    Otherwise, I don't really feel it to be a better option than 'th'.
    And even though I know they are not looking for a "better option", I feel like this is something I can't get behind unless it is and that doesn't really make me happy to think of it.

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