Sjmarf@sh.itjust.works to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 1 年前English, oldsh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square60linkfedilinkarrow-up1620arrow-down16
arrow-up1614arrow-down1imageEnglish, oldsh.itjust.worksSjmarf@sh.itjust.works to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 1 年前message-square60linkfedilink
minus-squareSturgiesYrFase@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up36·1 年前Always mad that typesetters got lazy, and we dropped Thorn from our alphabet. Everyone is all “ye olde English” snark snark…that’s cause they dropped thorn and used y instead…it’s still a Th sound…god…why can’t you people be nerds?!
minus-squarerockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 年前They weren’t lazy, they were French, IIRC
minus-squareFrostyCaveman@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 年前Yup, England had a Frenchaboo period after 1066 that lasted quite a while
minus-squareSwedneck@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 年前why did you just repeat the same thing twice?
minus-squareSwedneck@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 年前it annoys me so much how people say “yee oldee”, it’s literally just supposed to be pronounced like normal, but with stress on “the”, like “thee”
minus-squarejuliebean@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 年前i don’t know why “þorn” always gets so much more love on ðe internet ðan “eð”. ðey’re boþ cool letters.
minus-squareℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 年前Þæt and þēah… unvoiced. Spelled with þorne, not eð.
* þe olde
Always mad that typesetters got lazy, and we dropped Thorn from our alphabet. Everyone is all “ye olde English” snark snark…that’s cause they dropped thorn and used y instead…it’s still a Th sound…god…why can’t you people be nerds?!
They weren’t lazy, they were French, IIRC
Yup, England had a Frenchaboo period after 1066 that lasted quite a while
why did you just repeat the same thing twice?
it annoys me so much how people say “yee oldee”, it’s literally just supposed to be pronounced like normal, but with stress on “the”, like “thee”
dat thorn tho
*þat þorne þough…
*ðat þorne ðough…
i don’t know why “þorn” always gets so much more love on ðe internet ðan “eð”. ðey’re boþ cool letters.
Þæt and þēah… unvoiced. Spelled with þorne, not eð.
Hot.