San tends to use letters like Þ to represent a “th” sound. The letter is an old english one that died out. Lots of people will downvote his comments (including ones that use standard letters) for…reasons? I’m honestly not sure why.
Personally I’m down with bringing back old school letters. English orthography is almost as bad as french.
It’s the wrong old English letter. Thorn is used for the th in thorn. The th in the and this is Eth. I might be a pedant, but I’m a pedant with standards.
I’m not sure why you said it’s the “wrong” old english letter. I only specified “th sound” for thorn.
Also Eth and thorn were used interchangeably in old and middle english. Don’t be a pedant without knowing the actual info especially since this is the 4th paragraph on wikipedia:
The letter thorn was used in Old English very early on, as was ð, which was called eth. Unlike eth, thorn remained in common use through most of the Middle English period. Both letters were used for the phoneme /θ/, sometimes by the same scribe.
Although I don’t downvote their comments, I’d rather, they put the effort to use those separate characters for the 2 voices.
Otherwise, I don’t really feel it to be a better option than ‘th’.
And even though I know they are not looking for a “better option”, I feel like this is something I can’t get behind unless it is and that doesn’t really make me happy to think of it.
San tends to use letters like Þ to represent a “th” sound. The letter is an old english one that died out. Lots of people will downvote his comments (including ones that use standard letters) for…reasons? I’m honestly not sure why.
Personally I’m down with bringing back old school letters. English orthography is almost as bad as french.
A little eccentric but also kinda cool. Thx for the explanation, I didn’t even notice.
It’s the wrong old English letter. Thorn is used for the th in thorn. The th in the and this is Eth. I might be a pedant, but I’m a pedant with standards.
I’m not sure why you said it’s the “wrong” old english letter. I only specified “th sound” for thorn.
Also Eth and thorn were used interchangeably in old and middle english. Don’t be a pedant without knowing the actual info especially since this is the 4th paragraph on wikipedia:
Although I don’t downvote their comments, I’d rather, they put the effort to use those separate characters for the 2 voices.
Otherwise, I don’t really feel it to be a better option than ‘th’.
And even though I know they are not looking for a “better option”, I feel like this is something I can’t get behind unless it is and that doesn’t really make me happy to think of it.
The IPA defined their use as such.
But using them interchangeably is accurate to Old English.
Eth and thorn were interchangeable. (go to timestamp 8:06, for some reason lemmy keeps eating my attempt to link directly to that time.)