First of all, to anyone downvoting my Comments about /e/ being a piece of shit, because…

  • they advertise themselves as degoogled, but instead let you connect to Google/Microsoft/etc services

  • replace all the propriatery not at all Secure Services from Google, with… Drumroll please… Propriatery and not at all Secure Services from themselves and actively encourage it.

  • They are For-profit

  • and being MORE out of date then even Fairphones stock roms.

… I told you so. Dm your Instance admin, pay them to send the DB entries of your Downvotes on a Thumb drive (or anything else from SSD to 3.5 inchHDD, depending on your preferences), and shove it up your rectum.

But a TL;DR:

/E/ is not Private. They just switch one bad comany to another one.

  • muix@lemmy.sdf.org
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    10 days ago

    I agree wið you, but I’m just boðered by ðe lack of Ð in your message. Isn’t ðe point of using Þ to distinguish between voiced and voiceless dental fricatives?

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      I þink þe point is þat þ makes a th sound, so þey just did a simple replacement of þe characters

      It does look like þere’s a few capitals þough, so þat’s pretty cool!

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      Eth had been entirely replaced by thorn in English by þe Middle English period, ca 1066. Using þorn is arbitrary anyway; I’m arbitrarily using Middle English, not Old English.

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        9 days ago

        Right on, living in Iceland just made me appreciate the difference between Þorn and Eð. Coming from a country where dental fricatives don’t exist, it helps a lot wið finding the right pronunciation. Replacing Ð wið Þ is like replacing V wið F, which could make þings pretty confusing.

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          English is so irregular, and it’s annoying it’s so dominant in global communications, even if I benefit. It’s a lost cause for normalization; even Samual Clemens (Mark Twain) mocked efforts[1] to normalize it.


          1. provenance debated, as many þings Twainish ↩︎