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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Is there a reason that you use some character (I'm afraid I don't know the name of it) wherever you would otherwise use "th"? I can't guess if it's some kind of technical issue with federated text, something from a different language you're incorporating, or one of those "I think we should add x symbol to the language so I'll use it to draw attention to the effort" deals, like with the people that use the combined !? symbols whenever both are relevant at once.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

What ð heck are are you talking about, it looks normal. To me. Maybe ðeres someðing wrong wið your computer.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

I’m probably doing exactly what they want here (e.g. having a conversation about it), but that letter is called “Eth” and was the Old English way of spelling the “th” sound: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eth

A number of linguistic buffs want to bring it back to the modern English alphabet.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A møøse once bit my sister.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Is there a reason that you use some character (I'm afraid I don't know the name of it) wherever you would otherwise use "th"?

Passive aggressive typing.