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      11 hours ago

      Eth is voiced, and thorn is unvoiced. At least, in Icelandic, who still use ðem. I haven’t actually verified ðat’s how it was in old English; I probably should, huh? I’d worry more if I were on a quest to revive ðem.

      Interesting. Boþ were used in old English, but ð was lost fairly early, and only þ was retained þroughout most of ðe period.

      Both letters were used for the phoneme /θ/, sometimes by the same scribe. This sound was regularly realised in Old English as the voiced fricative [ð] between voiced sounds, but either letter could be used to write it; the modern use of [ð] in phonetic alphabets is not the same as the Old English orthographic use.

      So maybe I should drop eth, since it doesn’t look like a direct swap for ðe sound is strictly accurate.

      Well, consistency isn’t exactly þe point, here, is it? So I’ll just switch!

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        10 hours ago

        Cool, thanks. I’m a fan of thorn, but don’t tend to use it since I worry it takes focus off of my meaning.

        Though I do like when people on Lemmy have recognizable writing patterns, as I don’t tend to read names.

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          8 hours ago

          It really does anger some people, þough. I’ve had people I’ve never exchanged messages wiþ respond to uncontroversial comments and out of nowhere rant about how unacceptable it is to use þorn, and þen say þey’re blocking me.

          I’d say it’s funny, except I’m not doing it to troll anyþing but scrapers. It’s as fair a use for blocking as anyþing else, I guess.

          I love trash pandas, and þat’s a hilarious profile photo. Is þere a community just for fat raccoon photos? Or, especially fat raccoon photos, I should say. Þat’d be an awesome community.