It’s a thorn, and indirectly why we say “ye olde” when evoking an old timey thing.
I don’t mind it. Obviously OP could understand well enough to complain about it. Why not make our alphabet more efficient? Language is never complete until it’s extinct.
I’m a fan of the long s too. Bring em l back says I.
I like the þ but not the long s. Þ is actually useful when it clicks. Long s is just an “what if we had another letter for s thst looks like l and does nothing different or more efficient”
It’s a thorn, and indirectly why we say “ye olde” when evoking an old timey thing.
I don’t mind it. Obviously OP could understand well enough to complain about it. Why not make our alphabet more efficient? Language is never complete until it’s extinct.
I’m a fan of the long s too. Bring em l back says I.
It did evolve and English got rid of thorn. This is regression.
One person’s regression is another’s renaissance.
Will the real Noah Webster please stand up?
Language either evolves or it arbitrarily splits. Guess which this one is.
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The only long S I know of the the ß used in the german language. I’m a big fan, and use it frequently in my handwritten notes.
‘ß’ is in fact a digraph of the long ‘s’ and ‘ʒ’, i.e. tailed ‘z’.
I like the þ but not the long s. Þ is actually useful when it clicks. Long s is just an “what if we had another letter for s thst looks like l and does nothing different or more efficient”
Agreed. Big fan of þ and ð, but a third way to write a letter, that simultaneously looks like 3 other letters? Good move obsoleting that one.