Þere isn't much of a story here, I learnt how to setup a compose key þis week so I could do like capslock + letter to input special characters, I've set a couple of þese to accented latin, and oþer useful glyphs, one of þem being þe letter þorn, which I wasn't much familiar wiþ until last week and which I've taken a liking to.
Þank you! I felt þat þere’s some story on Reddit behind it. 😀 Actually, I really like it. Nice and clean. Not as revolutionising as the Shavian alphabet.
Sergey
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in reply to Sergey • • •Þere isn't much of a story here, I learnt how to setup a compose key þis week so I could do like capslock + letter to input special characters, I've set a couple of þese to accented latin, and oþer useful glyphs, one of þem being þe letter þorn, which I wasn't much familiar wiþ until last week and which I've taken a liking to.
https://old.reddit.com/r/BringBackThorn/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter)
letter of the Latin alphabet
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Sergey
in reply to Devine Lu Linvega • • •Þank you! I felt þat þere’s some story on Reddit behind it. 😀 Actually, I really like it. Nice and clean. Not as revolutionising as the Shavian alphabet.
I fail to read “þorn” correctly though. 😀
Devine Lu Linvega
in reply to Sergey • • •@enzet It makes sentences somewhat shorter, but it takes two utf-8 bytes, so it's equally as long as using th. I also þink(pink?) it's nice.
It forces readers to slow down a bit when reading my posts, which makes people in a hurry very annoyed.
Sergey
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in reply to Sergey • • •@enzet That's an old letter called "thorn"! It stands for the "th" sound in "thing" and "oath", but not the "th" sound in "this" or "loathe".
We used it once, but not anymore, which lands it in a category of things @neauoire takes great interest in 😄
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter)
Edit: nowadays it's still used in Iceland. ❄️🌋❄️
letter of the Latin alphabet
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Devine Lu Linvega
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You should check out its sibling “eth”, representing the hard th sound. It looks like an o with a claw emerging from the top: ð
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