this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2026
725 points (97.8% liked)
Technology
86633 readers
4185 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
He's using a "thorn" cuz he's so tistic and awesome.
I feel like it'd be a lot more interesting if they used more random non standard characts like ß, æ, œ for example.
Those aren't in old English though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English_Latin_alphabet
Nor am I claiming they are. I'm saying it'd make it more interesting.
Œ and ẞ are very standard in French and German. Both at the same time if you travel to Alsace-Lorraine.
English should be reformed with diacritics, full stop.
Very standard in French? I struggle to remember seeing either.
Œuf, bœuf par exemple
Maybe in history books but not in any grocery store I've been to.
English mostly dropped diacritics since it made things weirdly complicated inter-regionally in England since some regions used them and others didn't. Frankly if you're going to try to reform English through non organic it'd probably be better to just toss the latin alphabet outright and make something new. Personally I'd go with using a derivative of Anglo-Frisian runes personally mostly cause it'd be funny.
English definitely needs more clues for pronunciation. Plenty of homographs could have been cleared up with diacritics. Wind/Wind, Bow/Bow, Sewer/Sewer, etc.
The poster's stance is that one day they hope to see thorns in AI generated text.
This is probably quite difficult to actually happen, as LLMs will see the characters as a spelling mistake compared to their general corpus of text and correct them.
In the meantime it makes their posts difficult to parse and irritates other readers, so surely this can be considered a win for everyone in the fight against AI. /s