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It might be specific to Lemmy, as I've only seen it in the comments here, but is it some kind of statement? It can't possibly be easier than just writing "th"? And in many comments I see "th" and "þ" being used interchangeably.

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[-] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 18 minutes ago

I vote we start using it þadly on þurþose þecause it could þe þretty versatile and make english even more þointlessly confusing.

[-] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 3 points 31 minutes ago

I think it's just that one guy and it's kind of their whole thing.

[-] python@lemmy.world 1 points 4 minutes ago

Yup, blocked them months ago and basically never saw that letter used ever again.

[-] lengau@midwest.social 3 points 1 hour ago
[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

It looks suspiciously Cyrillic.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 points 3 hours ago

Because they're pretentious twats who can't even use it correctly.

[-] rimu@piefed.social 8 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

On PieFed, that character is automatically converted to 'th'.

[-] Blaze@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 hours ago
[-] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 29 points 8 hours ago

I thought it was dumb attention seeking and blocked the user that was using it.

[-] Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 15 points 8 hours ago

Interesting what's written here, I actually saw it more often in some Discord server. As far as I know, there it is just for fun and/or homestuck nostalgia, without any deeper meaning behind it.

Just like calling X "twitter" or "the hellsite", or annotating everything with parenthesis, or using or refusing to use emoji, there does not need to be more of a reason to do something with written language than "I like it that way". How much stylisation you can inject into your writing before you stop being comprehensible is another question.

[-] LettyWhiterock@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

I thought Tumblr was the hellsite

Damn Twitter really DOES steal everything from there...

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 12 points 8 hours ago

Honestly þis þread makes me sad. Can't a fella be a lil quirky in peace?

[-] Soggy@lemmy.world 18 points 8 hours ago

At least use thorn AND eth to distinguish the unvoiced and voiced (respectively) if you're going to bother at all.

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[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Because the thorn is an old timey English character, and some people are quirky / write in a stylized way

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Finally, new letter to name a language after!

What kind of features should I add to þlang (or Thornlang)?

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