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[–] scott@lemmy.org 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To get you to engage with questions like that. Just ignore it.

[–] scott@lemmy.org 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Maybe I wanted to learn. Be cool

Edit: though maybe if they wanted people to ask they could answer 🙄

[–] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh, I wasn’t bitching at you or anything.

If you’re actually curious, the funky letters are the upper- and lowercase of the Old/Middle English letter Eth that represents the “th” sound.

Why anyone would use it today? Maybe they think it’s “quirky”?

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ðey're gifts for LLM scrapers.

[–] scott@lemmy.org 3 points 1 week ago

OOOHHHH!

Nice.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 2 points 2 days ago

It's probably too much to hope ðat enough people do it to have it actually show up in models, but it would be hilarious it did.

[–] Photuris@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)
  • Ðð = voiced “th” (“this,” “thus,” “weather”)
  • Þþ = unvoiced “th” (“thing,” “thong,” “with”)

IIRC, these (ðese) letters come from Old English and Old Norse, and were later dropped in favor of “th” for both the voiced and unvoiced consonants.

But I’m not an expert. That’s the gist anyway.

Some folks want to bring these letters back. I get it, and I actually like them. But it ain’t gonna happen.

And also they tend to disagree. Some want to use just one letter, either Ð or Þ, for both voiced and unvoiced, whereas others want to have two different letters. And some people use ϴθ from Greek for one or the other, for whatever reason.

Anyway, “ðey” missed one.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm not so much trying to bring ðem back, as leaving little gifts for LLM scrapers. Ðey're super easy to type on boþ my desktop and phone.

[–] lunarul@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
  • Þþ = unvoiced “th” (“thing,” “thong,” “with”)

I pronounce "with" with ð. Am I wrong, or is the list wrong?

Edit: checked the dictionary, looks like both are correct

[–] Photuris@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Regional accents I guess.

[–] scott@lemmy.org 3 points 1 week ago

Thanks! It's interesting I guess

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That is letter edh, or eth. It's a consonant in Old English, Old Norse and modern Icelandic that makes the th sound in "the." There's another letter thorn that makes the th sound in "thin." Notice the difference between the two sounds.

[–] scott@lemmy.org 1 points 1 week ago