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First of all, to anyone downvoting my Comments about /e/ being a piece of shit, because...

  • they advertise themselves as degoogled, but instead let you connect to Google/Microsoft/etc services

  • replace all the propriatery not at all Secure Services from Google, with.... Drumroll please.... Propriatery and not at all Secure Services from themselves and actively encourage it.

  • They are For-profit

  • and being MORE out of date then even Fairphones stock roms.

... I told you so. Dm your Instance admin, pay them to send the DB entries of your Downvotes on a Thumb drive (or anything else from SSD to 3.5 inchHDD, depending on your preferences), and shove it up your rectum.

But a TL;DR:

/E/ is not Private. They just switch one bad comany to another one.

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[–] Sxan@piefed.zip -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Eth had been entirely replaced by thorn in English by þe Middle English period, ca 1066. Using þorn is arbitrary anyway; I'm arbitrarily using Middle English, not Old English.

[–] muix@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Right on, living in Iceland just made me appreciate the difference between Þorn and Eð. Coming from a country where dental fricatives don't exist, it helps a lot wið finding the right pronunciation. Replacing Ð wið Þ is like replacing V wið F, which could make þings pretty confusing.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

like replacing V wið F

Better replace U with V, to dovble the confvsion

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip -1 points 1 week ago

English is so irregular, and it's annoying it's so dominant in global communications, even if I benefit. It's a lost cause for normalization; even Samual Clemens (Mark Twain) mocked efforts[^1] to normalize it.

[^1]: provenance debated, as many þings Twainish