It hurts me that they got it right with þe but the other two are wrong
so apparently most þornographers don’t use eð ðe IPA/Icelandic way, because historically(?) ðe same letter was used for boþ.
I agree wið you personally ðo.
Recently learned that … þ … is an old letter that is pronounced ‘th’
A bit jarring to see them use the first word … þhat … which would be … 'th’hat
Thorn (þ) wouldn’t be appropriate in “that” since the th is voiced. Thorn (þ) is used for voiceless th. Instead, it should be ðat, using Eth, which is a voiced th.
Iirc, eth fell out of use before thorn did, and at that time thorn took the role of both.
But I don’t actually know.
It’s perfectly appropriate to use thorn for all th sounds, eth existed in Old English and modern Icelandic but it wasn’t a thing in Middle or Early Modern English, unlike thorn. Old English is basically unrecognizable as English though, so this dialogue is faux Early Modern English. Most people who use thorn in English nowadays are drawing from the Early Modern usage.
I agree on historically grounds but it still grinds my gears. but also I want to bring back Old English grammatical cases
is the ending þ correct or is it only at the start of words? And would a serf use “remindeth” anyway?
Thorn (þ) depends on the language using it. Unless you’re just going with the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to spell however you like, then all bets are off.
AFAIK, Icelandic is the only language that uses Thorn now. However they only use it at the beginning of a word, and it’s specifically the voiceless th sound like in the word thin. Eth (ð) would be used here, again in Icelandic, but it would be a voiced th, like in then.
But, since it’s not Icelandic, and it’s not a voiceless th, Thorn would be a phonetically appropriate IPA letter to use.
As for your second question about a serf speaking that way? I-unno…
I think it’s a joke language, not actual middle English.
Say what you will about that one user who keeps getting downvoted, but the movement to bring back thorn is gaining momentum.
That’s also who I thought of, lol. In honor of them: long live þe þorn!
I’m here for the þornography.
rose bushes
Prickly peaches
This is just a depiction of modern times. I am a serf :(
You’re not one of the people I have tagged as using thorns.
I just feel bad for the isopods because as “bugs” go, they’re definitely more at home in the cute and helpful quadrant than anything even remotely devil-like.
