Hah! Even here, I'm not safe from linguistics; I suppose I brought þis
on myself.
My limited knowledge of phonology would agree wiþ you, though I'm no
expert. Unfortunately for linguistic accuracy, however, my use of þe
þorn is mostly currently limited to replacements by an autohotkey
script, for which analysis of context is pretty much out of þe question.
Hmm... guess I have a new project!
On 2024-04-13 10:28 p.m., ais523 via agora-discussion wrote:
On Sat, 2024-04-13 at 22:11 -0400, Quadrantal via agora-business wrote:
I push þe boulder.
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Isn't that "th" actually a ð rather than a þ? Admittedly they were
pretty much used interchangeably in Old English (and ð ended up dying
out even before þ did, and before the distinction was commonly made),
but when writing the "th" sounds using historical letters, it makes
sense to give the two different sounds two different letters.
(IPA confuses the matter by using ð and θ for the two sounds, rather
than ð and þ, but the latter pair were both historically used for "th"
sounds in English and are rather easier to type.)
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