Sjmarf@sh.itjust.works to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 7 months agoEnglish, oldsh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square59fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1imageEnglish, oldsh.itjust.worksSjmarf@sh.itjust.works to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 7 months agomessage-square59fedilink
minus-squareSturgiesYrFase@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoAlways 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-squareSwedneck@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoit 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-squarerockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoThey weren’t lazy, they were French, IIRC
minus-squareFrostyCaveman@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoYup, England had a Frenchaboo period after 1066 that lasted quite a while
minus-squareSwedneck@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agowhy did you just repeat the same thing twice?
minus-squareℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoÞæt and þēah… unvoiced. Spelled with þorne, not eð.
minus-squarejuliebean@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoi don’t know why “þorn” always gets so much more love on ðe internet ðan “eð”. ðey’re boþ cool letters.
*ye olde
* 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?!
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”
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?
dat thorn tho
*þat þorne þough…
Hot.
*ðat þorne ðough…
Þæt and þēah… unvoiced. Spelled with þorne, not eð.
i don’t know why “þorn” always gets so much more love on ðe internet ðan “eð”. ðey’re boþ cool letters.