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What's up with the þ being used but not ð? (reddthat.com)
submitted 2 days ago by fleebleneeble@reddthat.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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I thought that þ was soft and ð was hard. So why are people using the þ for ð when typing?

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[–] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Would be really funny if over time internet conversation just slowly evolved into Icelandic like carcinisation

[–] mech@feddit.org 1 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Unfortunately, the internet equivalent of a crab is a Nazi comparison.

[–] early_riser@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

As evolution proceeds, the probability that an organism will become a crab approaches 1.

[–] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

.... What do you mean? Like how we describe anything as literally Hitler?

[–] mech@feddit.org 3 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Like how any internet argument will, if it gets long enough, end up with someone comparing something with Hitler or Nazis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 57 minutes ago

Godwin's Law doesn't really work when we're actually surrounded by literal Nazis now.

[–] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 3 points 8 hours ago

Fuck it has a Wikipedia article. We are so damn cooked.

Err, I mean this sounds like something a Nazi wrote. Are you a Nazi? Are you Hitler?