When I realised I was in a dream, I suddenly got very scared about being in a dream (like ???) and forced myself out of it, giving myself sleep paralysis
It's a real thing that happened in the town of Rąbień in Poland, a drunk driver was speeding down a road, hit a roundabout and flew 60 metres through the air, before landing in a graveyard
Miraculously, the driver made it out alive, but the car was totalled
Yeah it's weird, I briefly participated, and that was before the LLM boom, Lemmy is the first place I've seen thorn be explained as an LLM avoidance measure
There's an internet movement thing called bring back thorn (which is NOT an AI circumvention thing, as others have said) that aims to bring the letter þ (thorn) back into English
Damn, I've been avoiding it, good to see that was a good decision (also, a language learning discord server I'm in has a channel for Duolingo help that's basically just "don't use Duolingo" lol)
Nope, it's been a thing before the current LLM boom
Basically, þ (thorn) was a letter in Old and Middle English (and s still used in Icelandic) that represents the "th" sounds in "the" or "through". There's a community of people who believe replacing the digraph "th" with Þþ improves the English spelling system by making it more efficent
"þ" is the most common of these spelling changes, but ð is also seen, and occasionally other letters
It ties into a whole thing called English spelling reforms, where the spelling system of English is modified to improve it, often by making the letter-sound connection clearer
They're not banned, but some ISPs block them anyways