I thought that þ was soft and ð was hard. So why are people using the þ for ð when typing?

  • HatchetHaro@pawb.social
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    3 days ago

    i don’t get the hate towards that random guy using the thorn. it’s just a personal style and not really hard to read.

    like, who cares? all lowercase is my own style of typing. it’s all informal and used in an informal setting; we’re not writing a publication here.

    • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      17 hours ago

      I don’t hate that much but it is very hard to read for me, because i havent seen that letter anywhere before. My mind actually reads it as greek letter rho(ρ) and it requires pausing and thinking to read thoose words

      • AA5B@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        For exactly the reason that one person is doing it. There’s not really a thing but one interesting character is mildly entertaining while not impeding readability or require learning historical lettering