Many people can’t handle the existing alphabet, imagine for a second if they have to deal with extra letters.
Two more letters to name programming languages after!
Someone to create Oslashlang with me?
As a Danish guy, please don’t. I get confused enough when you mash æ, ø, or å into random words.
Oooohhh… Is England asking to be invaded again? :D
Þhat’s a great idea
Thhis
lmao
Came to the comments to post this. Am-english could at least use the ae.
Where’s the Lemmy user who unironically uses the thorn in all of their posts? You should hook up with that person!
The þ þing? That’s really cool to have around.
I for one would love to see English gain a bit of Frenchoise nose-up with ç.
Yogthos?
Þ is þe coolest
For some reason I only read it as a lisp. Or a waaay over pronounced TH, like cartoonish, think daffy duck.
Yæs plæse
You can keep all the rest. I just want Þ (thorn). It represents þe “th” sound in English. Gimmie!!!
æ is already in the English alphabet though.
How do you pronounce it?
I say AAAAIEEEEE!
Danish guy here who actually has æ in the alphabet. It is pretty much pronounced like ‘e’ in bet.
All* the Old English characters are named with the sound they make, almost all of them starting with that sound. Æ is called Ash, and it makes the ah sound.
- As English goes, there is of course, one exception.
Some of those are kind of hard to learn to write. Then we need more characters on keyboard or use special keys. I had a really hard time learning English and typing on it. I really dont need more struggles.
Nah, the modification for keyboard is trivial. Other languages use alt+[closest base sign] to get special sign. So in polish it’s s->ś or c->ć. The shortcut system is so convinient that it completely overshadowed dedicated layout.
I happen to be listening to autechre when I saw this.
Disappointed it’s a different æ.
add č it’s cool
Why not Š and Ž as well then?
How to pronounce Swedish umlauted vowels:
Å => how the British pronounce “awe”, “oo” in “floor”
Ä => how the Americans pronounce the “a” in “cat”
Ö => “ea” in “earl”, “yearn” or “u” in “turn”
ik about Å because blåhaj :3
Oh I’ll add the Estonian ones because we’ve got fun ones
Ü - pretty much does not exist in English, you might hear it in a weird dialect, apparently in the word “few” as spoken by scousers and some South Africans?
Õ - same preface, apparently you might hear a person from Cardiff pronounce “foot” this way or a southern USian might say “nut” this way, but I’ve never heard either.
Ö and Ä are the same as in Swedish and we do not have Å
So ä ö and ü are pronounced the same as in German?
Then i’d just have to learn how to say å and õ if I visit the Baltics or Scandinavia.
Yes, ü sounds like the ü in über and ö like Österreich at least. I’m not entirely sure about the German vs Estonian pronunciation of ä. Sounds closer to the ä in Käfer than the ä in Käse if you go to wiktionary and listen to the example pronunciations. I did study German in school because it sounded preferable to learning an entire new alphabet and recall the German ä was taught as sort of a cross between the Estonian ä and Estonian e, leaning towards one or the other depending on context, but then again I’m not sure how good my German teachers were, I know I only ever had two or three English teachers out of like 8 or 9 that actually spoke the language and knew how to pronounce words.
Don’t forget Þe letter ‘Þ’. It was an essential part of Þe English language, and one Þat actually makes sense.
I really don’t understand why we got rid of it! Why move toward using two letters in place of a single one? Þat’s just feaÞerbrained.
Imported types (ex. from Germany) for printing presses didn’t have it because it was an English only letter. Rather than coming up with expensive home modification (which some did anyway eventually but not en masse) there were easy alternatives because use of th was already established and also the letter y kind of looked like thorn in the fonts of the time so you could also sub that in.
Convenience of just doing a workaround rather than paying more money for a more English type modification won out and with so many using th and the thorn disappearing soon the use of the y that looked like thorn dropped out also.
It was because of the corruption and power welded by the type setters guild. Papers charged by the letter for adds, so one letter which could replace 2 was lost profits. So it had to go.
Fuck no.
