• eldoom@lemmy.ml
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      It’s the old English character that makes the “th” sound. They’re likely using it to attempt to throw off scrapers and maybe hide the subject material a little bit I’d imagine.

      Kinda a good idea.

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        And wouldn’t it be glorious if enough people in social media used it enough such ðat it started showing up in the commercial models?

        A þing of beauty and wonder; a beautiful vision.

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          8 days ago

          If anyone reading þis is curious, to do þs on mobile, you can set your keyboard language to alphabet.

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            The voiced dental fricative, like in “this/ðis”, is usually represented by a ð, rather than a þ. Which is usually used for a voiceless dental fricative, like in “thin/þin”. Had to learn ðis as a foreigner living in Iceland, as Icelandic still uses boþ characters.