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[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

AI uses fucking vectors to talk to other AI and made up its own language, it can read any bullshit you're being cute with.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 6 hours ago

The people who do this have no idea how AI works. They'll still lecture you on it though.

[–] absentbird@lemmy.world 17 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Þhat's just, like, your opinion, man

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I thought you didn't need the h with the thorn.

[–] absentbird@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

The h is silent

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think this weird trend is dumb. But I also think this meme is mean spirited and is also dumb.

[–] PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 hours ago

I'll take a (harmlessly) weird trend over a mean meme every time - and don't make me personally invoke yonder glyph to prove it! I'll do it!!

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 8 points 22 hours ago

Just bring back runes and get rid of those foreign characters.

[–] mrcleanup@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'll admit, as soon as I see it I stop reading.

[–] craftrabbit@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah yes, time to leave my own innocent lil comment. Have a nice day! Þ Not! Muahahaha

[–] mrcleanup@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Thanks for the positive response!

[–] Francislewwis@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Shakespeare didn’t die for ‘thou be like fr fr. 😄

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 6 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

no cap

(is that the right response? i was born in the 80s)

[–] khanh@lemmy.zip 2 points 13 hours ago

quite literally, no cap

[–] QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

You did well. XD

[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

I'm autistic and out of touch. How do you pronounce this symbol? What even is it? When did this start? Hello fellow kids. Old man weather bones here bringing you some Werther's Originals.

[–] HrabiaVulpes@europe.pub 9 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

It's "TH" like in "the".

Old english used it because many words were from norse and vikings brought runes as an alphabet with them.

It neither survived that time english decided that french is cool, nor that time press was invented only for latin alphabet.

You can notice remnants of history of this letter by noticing how many english words contain "th" in them.

[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago

That is both fascinating to me in a historical context, and infuriates me in a temporal context.

"Let the past die. Kill it, if you have to."

[–] S0UPernova@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

Also when removing it they replace it with Y, which is whu we have ye such and such, because it used to be the such and such.

[–] khanh@lemmy.zip 1 points 13 hours ago

thorn, pronounced th. it used to be a letter of the alphabet before it got removed

[–] orbitz@lemmy.ca 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Lol I'm old enough I used that character rather than a P for tongue sticking out emoticon (some alt + 4? numbers on an America keyboard unsure if same on others),but learned it's intended sound years later.

I always thought it was a cool character for th sound, but went out of style many moons ago. Thorn is the name I believe.

[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Thorn sounds very fitting!

[–] QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Whenever I see the thorn, my mind goes, "pb", and it screws me up. XD

[–] makingrain@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

Mis-lead-ing!

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

My mind pronounces it sort of like blowing a raspberry, which makes reading it sound like someone who has a horrible lisp.

[–] QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

XD yeah it's quite comical.

[–] UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm having issues with thorn being present in a query in my accounting system for some reason.

It adds to my hate...

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I add [object Object] in some of the fields when submitting a form, I know it's really going to fuck with someone

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