• philthi@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Haha, what a delight, my first wild spotting of the thorn (þ) character! I watched a YouTube video by a language nerd who’d love to see it resurrected :)

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      6 hours ago

      Yup! I’ve decided to be þe change I want to ſee :-) Alſo it would be ſuper cool for Engliſh to have its own addition to þe Latin alphabet like oþer languages have!

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        3 hours ago

        Oh, that’s strange! I used to hate that Spanish (my first language) had all these extra additions to the base Latin alphabet as a kid and thought English looked more elegant for that reason. So for someone to actively want that feels strange.

        I mean, now I know better having learned a bit of linguistics, but it’s still trippy for someone like me coming from the other side having grown up with these preconceived ideas.

        I really like the alternative spelling, though. I think it could be useful for teaching English pronunciation.