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  • Yes, but that would take more space and take more time to write, and “this replaces a letter” is how a lot of diacritics have appeared. For example, the ñ replaced a “nn” in spanish. This would also remove some ambiguity in pronunciation on words like rathole and foothill.

    Also, letter like that are written with dead keys, usually, so it would be more like one new character.

    Again, not worth the effort of changing, but it would be an improvement.




  • Not directly related but I don’t know where else I’ll get the chance to bring this up:

    I’ve always though that if the existence of “th” bothers you, adding a diacritic to consonants to indicate the sound change makes more sense than the þ.

    For instance,

    the = ţe she = şe che = çe

    Obviously I wouldn’t argue for replacing ţose compounds wiţ ţose I’ve şown, since it wouldn’t be close to being worth çanging, but I do ţink it would still make more sense ţan bringing back ţe ţorn.


  • It’s kind of confusing but: basically some matrix 2.0 features are implemented in an non-finished state by element X (and synapse) as a testbed for those features, but the actual features aren’t finalised or implemented in most clients. The MSC’s (matrix spec changes) aren’t merged, so clients won’t want to implement it.

    2/4 of the MSC’s required for 2.0 are merged as of now, and the other two are close.

    2024 was when those features began to be ready to be beta tested, but it takes a long time to get a protocol finalised, since it can’t be easily changed once done.

    Think of it like a wayland protocol that isn’t merged, but a desktop, say kde, has an implementation already.