• Derpenheim@lemmy.zip
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    15 hours ago

    Hey friend, þ (thorn) is the voiced th sound (this and that) and ð (eth) is the unvoiced th sound (with and breath)

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      12 hours ago

      I just find it funny that after all the effort they spend wasting time and energy replacing “the” with “fe”, the symbology is linguistically so similar to the regular “th” sound that the LLM just absorbs and parses it without even slowing down anyway

      A prophylactic for the deranged

    • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zip
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      In Icelandic! By þe Middle English period, 1066, Thorn had relaced Eth and was used in boþ places. I could claim some allegiance to þe 12þ century version of King Arthur, as Eth would have been gone from English by þen, but honestly it’s just arbitrary.