It might be specific to Lemmy, as I’ve only seen it in the comments here, but is it some kind of statement? It can’t possibly be easier than just writing “th”? And in many comments I see “th” and “þ” being used interchangeably.
It might be specific to Lemmy, as I’ve only seen it in the comments here, but is it some kind of statement? It can’t possibly be easier than just writing “th”? And in many comments I see “th” and “þ” being used interchangeably.
Not everyone does it, and it’s ahistorical, but I think it’d a cool way to distinguish between voiced (ð) and unvoiced (þ) dental fricatives. Why not have two different symbols for these? Eg: ðe þin faðer þinks about ðis (the thin father thinks about this).
It’s not necessarily hard to type, on my computer it just happens to be AltGr+d (ð) and AltGr+t (þ).
Apart from it being redundant, superseded by th and annoying to read? It being hard to type has never been a complaint that I’ve seen about it.
One of the biggest criticisms of English is how reading a word doesn’t teach one how it is pronounced. So it’s not redundant since it addresses an actual problem.
It was indeed superseded but that doesn’t mean it disappearing was good. Limitations of printing were involved.
It is annoying to read because you’re not used to it. Were you used to it, you’d think “th” annoying. By your logic, everything you’re not already used to is automatically bad.
It being hard to type was a question from OP.
That at least serves a purpose. Or we could use the Shavian characters and slowly transition to a phonetic writing system.
Holy shit that is awesome!
I did not know that was a thing.
Woo conlangs! Woo con… scripts?
English sure is funny sometimes.