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[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee -4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (17 children)

Retelling stories is such an ancient tradition we literally can trace certain myþs genealogically þrough ð millennia.

Cloud being sad in an Action RPG format ðis time isn't some deep revelation of ð deaþ of creativity because capitalism exists.

And I hate capitalism and what it does to artistic expression!

[–] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

Do you plan to do all digraphs, or just th?

Will you split out the different vowel phonemes to their IPA?

I'm just intrigued by the thought process behind your choice of typed characters.

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee -5 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

Hæv ė lᵫk yoṙſelf if y'ṙ intcrestid.

Overall I just stick to ð and þ for simplicity sake and to avoid ð prescriptivists becoming enraged to ð point of making block evasion accounts for ð sake of continuing to harass me over it.

[–] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

It's certainly simpler, I'll give you that.
It takes too much mental energy to read that document.

May I ask why at all?

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I'd also like to know why he uses those characters. I'm not the most fluent in English, and never saw those characters used.

[–] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

They're old English letters used for writing the two different "th" sounds English has, which are fairly rare phonemes.

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee -5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

English is one of few languages with such horrific historical spelling problems, and it's basically entirely due to just being too stubborn to write ð words as ðey are pronounced since doing ðat is a signal of "low intellect", as opposed to basically every oðer language ðat does it because of consistent sound shifts making it not as big a deal, or because ð original written language was of deep religious significance making changing it analogous to a kind of blasphemy.

Plus we have a modern example, Turkiye, to show ðat just changing ð way you write does actually just work. Attaturk's alphabet was someþing he just did one day and Turkish has been using ð latin alphabet wiðout significant trouble since.

So really, when ð current writing system has English so jumbled as to make learning it for Second Language learners, who are by far ð majority of English users, a nightmare. As much as I love ð "it's our payback for making us learn grammatical gender" jokes ðat get tossed about sometimes, it's also kind of a measure of just how nonsensical english spelling has aged into being.

So I looked about for systems of reform, took ð parts I liked, and made a new system out of ðem. Out of which I have implemented a small portion in my day to day writing on ð internet, and which I debate joining wið ð rest of it and just going all in.

[–] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Fair enough.
Be the change you want to see and all that.

I personally love the mad spelling, but I can understand that other folks don't.

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