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Take anything to the extreme and it gets annoying lol. But I would just mute you if you always talked like that.
But literally replacing th -> þ is mild and actually has a linguistic argument to back it up.
Nah, I'm with OP, it annoys me every damn time. but to each their own.
The only linguistic argument I'll accept is that using it amongst fluent speakers doesn't cause linguistic arguments.
n1c3 str4wm4n!
it was completely not a valid argument, but it made a point. Throrns throw the same kind of pretentio🅄s shade in my mind as the leet speakers in the 90's and 00's. People can obviously read either, but it's more of a look what I can do and let's bring this old thing back without addressing that we got rid of it all on purpose.
edit: Thanks for wiping that off @dream_weasel
Fyi, you dropped this -> u
I did, but it fell in a pile of vomit and i didn't care to pick it back up, thanks!
I don't think we got rid of it on purpose. I think it was mostly that imported printing presses only had Latin characters by default. Printers also added a bunch of stupid spelling that we're stuck with (like the "b" in doubt or debt, the "s" in island) because most books were in Latin and they wanted to make it look similar to the Latin word to be more legible.
Weird, I read that almost easier than normal text
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