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[–] diverging@piefed.social 49 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Θώθ has both upper case and lower case Greek characters, and a diacritic above the ω.

Throughout antiquity, Greek had only a single uppercase form of each letter. It was written without diacritics and with little punctuation.

I suppose it would have been written ΘΩΘ.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago

Also, single syllable words don't (typically) use diacritics in modern Greek either

[–] Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

About the upper case thing - was that something that was preserved until vulgar Latin? Seeing as everything is majuscule in like inscriptions and whatnot

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 9 points 1 day ago

Every time I see OwO now, I'm gonna be like "Thoth, tee hee :3"

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (3 children)

How would thorn guy write 'thoth'?

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hmmm? 🥸 oh hi

I'd write "Thoth" because I don't change how names are spelt. Boring answer, I know.

[–] teslekova@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's a shame, it would look like bob.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 0 points 1 day ago

Θώθ is pretty cool, too, þough.

"Hey, Þoþ says to keep it down out there."

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Good question! What was his username again? Someone should tag him.

[–] PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sxan. Dunno the domain or nothing, so that's what you got.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago

@Sxan@piefed.zip

[–] Artisian@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago
[–] Akh@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] bunnyBoy@pawb.social 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

'Notices your bulge OwO, whats this?' Is a pretty popular furry adjacent copypasta. It's been around a while, but most recently it was actually the meme that was inscribed on the casing of the bullet that got Charlie Kirk.

There's a know your meme page for it that I almost linked to, but that website is a shithole of ads now apparently.

[–] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

, but that website is a shithole of ads now apparently.

Use an adblocker.

Use a browser that has an adblocker.

[–] bunnyBoy@pawb.social 1 points 1 day ago

I just don't like giving them the traffic. If you wanna completely ruin your website with obtrusive ads then you really don't care if I visit it or not.

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I think it's because it looks like a classical version of UwU, i.e. think of the Θ as eyes, and the ώ as the "snout"

ΘωΘ

I don't see it well myself either, but I'm Greek so I'm used to just read these letters.

[–] albbi@piefed.ca 7 points 2 days ago

I don’t see it well myself either, but I’m Greek so I’m used to just read these letters.

This is great. It's like the inverse of the idiom "It's all Greek to me" because you understand the greek and don't see the picture that would come from not knowing the letters.

[–] molehill_siesta@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, a friend of mine uses OTL as a "head-desk" emoticon and every time I'm just seeing letters and trying to expand the initialism.

It's easier when it's mixed or impossible punctuation, like O.O or T_T or things like that - signaling that "normal rules of letters combining into words are not valid here, look for a different pattern"

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Try as I might I can't see the OTL emoticon

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Head: O - Arms, neck, and torso: T - Kneeling legs: L

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We understand Greek is in fact a totally separate language from English, yeah?

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 12 points 2 days ago

Tell me more about the English meaning of UwU