this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2025
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þ or thorn is an old letter used for one of the sounds now represented by th in english (the other being ð or eth) old german presses didn't have a þ so it was replaced with y (ye olde), and later th, but because the 2 th sounds are confusing being the same letter cluster, so people started joking about bringing back þ and ð and it quickly became something trendy to use among some demographics
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FTFY
if this trend goes on a while I'll adjust but until then that is going to read as pank/bank which transforms into a shorthand for spank bank.
it's like when /hj was going around and i read it as "end handjob" even after i looked up what it was supposed to mean.
TIL about being half-joking
I don't know what /hj means but I'm just going to roll with end handjob because that is entertaining.
Nothing Freudian going on here. 🖐️
oh it's definitely me
No judgement from me. If anything, I’m jealous. 😏
bank you to.
Ðere's some viedos about ðis, like ðis: https://youtu.be/Te4cbx9cmqM which talks about þorn and eð. or ðis: https://youtu.be/SVWvkZbhgAc
Porn? Nice.
Porn and ED
It does look like that, yes x3. I've seen that joke a bunch :3(though I'm kinda a language nerd who hangs out in groups that would use thorn and eth unironically)