• Jake Farm@sopuli.xyz
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          2 months ago

          I have seen the diagram of how the latin script transformed into modern writing and S becoming f and then back to S makes no sense to me.

    • Mesophar@pawb.social
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      2 months ago

      It’s the character thorn, and it was used for “th” sounds before it fell out of use. Some posters have taken to using it for various reasons.

      • Jake Farm@sopuli.xyz
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        2 months ago

        You forgot about ð(eth) which is the “th” from that or father. Also I believe it fell out of favor due to the development of type face for printers and wanting to reduce the number of unique characters.

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          Which if I’m being honest, thank fuck for that. I couldn’t stand it if English had three different letters for basically the exact same sound, it’s just unnecessarily complicated imo.

          • Jake Farm@sopuli.xyz
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            2 months ago

            That is like saying f and v make the same sound. English doesn’t have enough letters for the number of phonemes, which is one of the reasons it is so difficult to learn.