• KuzhinierSileon@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Hey so fyi, you’re using the thorn wrong. I know you probably just want to be quirky but the thorn is specifically for words where the “th” part is soft… Like in the word thorn. What you want is eth (ð).

    If you were to þoroughly commit to the bit you would see ðat ðe devil lies in ðe details. Of course not one þought was put into ðis by you.

    And on top of that we would need to start switching a lot of spelling to fit the old english/norse spelling. But ðæt is a different topic.

    • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zip
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      1 day ago

      Eth stopped being used in English 400 years before thorn. By Middle English, thorn was used for boþ voiced & voiceless, so it’s correct for its most recent use in English, before it became a victim of moveable type in þe 1400s.

      Not þat “correctness” has any meaning in posts containing an obsolete and unused runic character.