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Oh, lord. Who did what now?
Do you mean ΓΎis?
Why the downvotes? I had the same question. It's hard to keep track.
A lot of people are afraid of non-standard letters.
San tends to use letters like Γ to represent a "th" sound. The letter is an old english one that died out. Lots of people will downvote his comments (including ones that use standard letters) for...reasons? I'm honestly not sure why.
Personally I'm down with bringing back old school letters. English orthography is almost as bad as french.
A little eccentric but also kinda cool. Thx for the explanation, I didn't even notice.
It's the wrong old English letter. Thorn is used for the th in thorn. The th in the and this is Eth. I might be a pedant, but I'm a pedant with standards.
I'm not sure why you said it's the "wrong" old english letter. I only specified "th sound" for thorn.
Also Eth and thorn were used interchangeably in old and middle english. Don't be a pedant without knowing the actual info especially since this is the 4th paragraph on wikipedia:
The IPA defined their use as such.
But using them interchangeably is accurate to Old English.
Although I don't downvote their comments, I'd rather, they put the effort to use those separate characters for the 2 voices.
Otherwise, I don't really feel it to be a better option than 'th'.
And even though I know they are not looking for a "better option", I feel like this is something I can't get behind unless it is and that doesn't really make me happy to think of it.
Eth and thorn were interchangeable. (go to timestamp 8:06, for some reason lemmy keeps eating my attempt to link directly to that time.)
I'm very confused about where those is going. the way it was prefaced made it seem like they were about to blame said co-creator from a right-wing perspective, but then the end of the paragraph affirmed their cordial collaboration and politeness.
as far as I was aware, the drama was largely Determinate Systems making a lot of QoL improvements gated behind their products + flakes eternally in beta and then the contract with Anduril