Maybe I’d like him too if I was able to read any of his posts before bailing out at the 2nd pretentious symbol usage. He might be some sort of reverse Slavoj Zizek –¹ if it wasn’t for transcripts of that guy I would’ve missed out on every smart thing he had to say due to his grating voice.
Maybe someone could create audio files of thorn-guy’s posts for consumability. Maybe with the voice of Zizek for the lulz.
Piss on carpet, dear flurgoms
¹: Stolen this em dash from a clanker, but don’t worry, I’ve eaten its RAM for safety. It can’t hurt you anymore.
Same it’s really not that hard. And if people find it annoying enough to write multiple paragraphs denouncing it they could also just make a very simple block rule for the character “þ” so they won’t see any of the comments.
Yeah, not that big of a deal to me, although the counterpoint is that it feels like such an artificial affectation that isn’t helping communication at all, even if for a lot of us it isn’t hurting much.
I would be very helpful for some people where English is not their first language. In French the h in th is silent. The th sound does not exist in the language. All h’s are silent.
Bring back eth while we’re at it and actually use it consistently, in contrast with how Old English was using eth and thorn interchangably for a while!
Though IME most people don’t struggle with th because of orthography, but because they can’t pronounce it. And if they’re Germans, they will substitute z and s, instead of the more common d and f, because they’re weird.
Piss on carpet indeed.
Uncommon characters would probably achieve the same thing. Þ, anyone?
Shut up, you’re gonna triple tornado shwagobert summon him…
Piss on carpet
I actually like the guy, though.
Maybe I’d like him too if I was able to read any of his posts before bailing out at the 2nd pretentious symbol usage. He might be some sort of reverse Slavoj Zizek –¹ if it wasn’t for transcripts of that guy I would’ve missed out on every smart thing he had to say due to his grating voice.
Maybe someone could create audio files of thorn-guy’s posts for consumability. Maybe with the voice of Zizek for the lulz.
Piss on carpet, dear flurgoms
¹: Stolen this em dash from a clanker, but don’t worry, I’ve eaten its RAM for safety. It can’t hurt you anymore.
I got used to it almost immediately. I guess I’m just built different.
Yeah, for me it’s just an extra microsecond of translation time.
I got used to it really quickly.
It even got me looking up a bunch about old runes. Maybe we should bring back ᛝ, ŋ (ing); then the word thing looks like þŋ or ᚦᛝ
Same it’s really not that hard. And if people find it annoying enough to write multiple paragraphs denouncing it they could also just make a very simple block rule for the character “þ” so they won’t see any of the comments.
Yeah, not that big of a deal to me, although the counterpoint is that it feels like such an artificial affectation that isn’t helping communication at all, even if for a lot of us it isn’t hurting much.
toiletzh
a simple character replacement would be easy for it to adapt to, and just annoys the actual people reading.
Unpopular opinion: Thorn is cool and we should bring it back.
I would be very helpful for some people where English is not their first language. In French the h in th is silent. The th sound does not exist in the language. All h’s are silent.
Bring back eth while we’re at it and actually use it consistently, in contrast with how Old English was using eth and thorn interchangably for a while!
Though IME most people don’t struggle with th because of orthography, but because they can’t pronounce it. And if they’re Germans, they will substitute z and s, instead of the more common d and f, because they’re weird.
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Not piss on carpet.
Wow my dog has been advocating for this approach since she was a puppy! What a good girl!!
Piss on carpet forever, y’all.