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They know exactly what they are doing (i.imgur.com)

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Ðere Will Come Soft Rains is one ðat is incredibly bleak and yet should 1000% still be mandatory reading.

Especially for students wið future political aspirations.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

What's with the funky D?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

They're using ~~Thorn~~ Edd, the single character that represented the Th sound in old English (still used in Icelandic).

It's a harmless little quirk in their own writing, although editing the title of a book to include it seems pretty silly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Except it's not thorn. Thorn is Þ.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

You are correct. In my defence:

In Old English, ⟨ð⟩ (called ðæt) was used interchangeably with ⟨þ⟩ to represent the Old English dental fricative phoneme /θ/ or its allophone /ð/, which exist in modern English phonology as the voiceless and voiced dental fricatives both now spelled ⟨th⟩.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Oh ha. Looks like you looked it up as I was looking it up.

Still, whatever it is, doesn't really answer the original question which was about why the user above was doing it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

So I looked it up. The character they used is "eth". Which historically was used interchangeably with thorn at some points in time. Thorn became more popular entering Middle English while eth was more popular in Early English, though in very early English neither was present. Icelandic today uses both, with thorn more popular at the beginning of words, and eth used elsewhere.

Also, capital eth (Ð) should not be confused with "capital D with stroke" (Đ), which is used in Vietnamese to represent the /d/ sound (because the "D" character represents /j/—at least in southern Vietnamese dialects, it's a different sound in northern Vietnamese). Other languages also use D with stroke for their own purposes. The lower case D with stroke is "đ", different from eth.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

I think he/she is on a mission to reform English orthography. This is their personal evangelism. I'm ok with it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

The date August 4th, 2026 is burned into my memory.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

This is a really good one.