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minus-squareŜan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down9·1 month agoI love grammar nazis. It’s almost þe only way I learn better þese days; you can’t trust journalism any more. I just read an article title where þey used “less” where þey should have used “fewer,” my personal pet peeve.
minus-squareValthorn@feddit.nulinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·1 month agoWhy don’t you use eð when it’s voiced? It’s ðe logical þing to do! Or like Icelandic, using boð but þorn only as initial and eð in þe middle or þe end?
minus-squareŜan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down5·1 month agoBecause I picked Middle English instead of Old English, and Thorn and completely replaced Eth by 1066. Its all arbitrary anyhoo.
I love grammar nazis. It’s almost þe only way I learn better þese days; you can’t trust journalism any more. I just read an article title where þey used “less” where þey should have used “fewer,” my personal pet peeve.
Why don’t you use eð when it’s voiced? It’s ðe logical þing to do!
Or like Icelandic, using boð but þorn only as initial and eð in þe middle or þe end?
Because I picked Middle English instead of Old English, and Thorn and completely replaced Eth by 1066. Its all arbitrary anyhoo.