If You Can Read Þis

[The Archregimancy]

Now let me be a pedantic.

Are you not sometimes using þorn where you should instead be using eð? For example 'Ðe faþer laid ðis wreaþ'.

You're right, although it's gotta be spelled like faðer if that's what we're going for (although I think you might've realised this?).

Usually, yes, and usually I would have been more careful to get the details right.

But I'm in bed with Covid right now, so my usual levels of petty pedantry have slipped.

[The Archregimancy]

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Do you want it as the roman language or the roman alphabet?

Neither. I'm calling for a return to the classical virtues of Roman epigraphic inscriptions.

[Arpasia]

Maybe, if given enough time, I may be able to read all þose words Þat have T and H when it's replaced with a "Þ". But in my opinion, the Þorn looks very much like a keepsake of Þe Old and Middle English language, Þough I will say, Þe letter itself seems a bit odd when it replaces T and H, I Þink Þat the good ol' T and H letters more better when not replaced with the letter Þ.

[Bhang Bhang Duc]

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Well that takes me back to studying O Level Latin and trying to understand the inscriptions at Bath.

[Sordhau]

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ARCH NO

[Harjanika]

The poll name...

[Communist Beijing Must be China]

Do you want it as the roman language or the roman alphabet?

Neither. I'm calling for a return to the classical virtues of Roman epigraphic inscriptions.

Ok then.

Maybe, if given enough time, I may be able to read all þose words Þat have T and H when it's replaced with a "Þ". But in my opinion, the Þorn looks very much like a keepsake of Þe Old and Middle English language, Þough I will say, Þe letter itself seems a bit odd when it replaces T and H, I Þink Þat the good ol' T and H letters more better when not replaced with the letter Þ.

If you gotta have the þorn then you gotta have eð. Eth.

[The United Penguin Commonwealth]

Are you not sometimes using þorn where you should instead be using eð? For example 'Ðe faþer laid ðis wreaþ'.

You're right, although it's gotta be spelled like faðer if that's what we're going for (although I think you might've realised this?). After all, "father" uses the th- sound of "the", "then", "this" and not the th- sound from "thick, thug, thin, Thor", which is where thorn comes in.

Naturally, in Old English both thorn and eth could be used for both sounds interchangeably, but that is stupid, so let's do the right thing and use them for different sounds - English-speaking people simply cannot fucking help themselves when it comes to making spelling ambiguous.

Fair enough. I just realized ðat I wasn’t using two th- sounds in my previous comment where I suggested ðat we have one sound per each letter.

fer înûf. aî jûst riülaîzd ðæt aî wàzûnt yuzɪŋ tu th- sãndz în maî priviûs kàment wer aî sûgjestûd ðæt wi hæv wûn sānd per iʧ letûr.

[Barlyy]

I'm not a Native speaker, but I think it would make sense to reintroduce this letter. It would make writing quicker at least, and "th" is very common in English so I think it deserves a letter of its own.

[Eros Prime]

YES YES, AGREE

[Haganham]

Would you really write Þ as Þorn though?
We do not write W as dubleyu

[Forsher]

Are you not sometimes using þorn where you should instead be using eð? For example 'Ðe faþer laid ðis wreaþ'.

De favver laid dis wreaf.

Out with the th in all its varieties!