r/SubsIFellFor • u/I-have-Arthritis-AMA • Mar 26 '24

Þats not a real sub

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u/WyvernSlayer7 Mar 27 '24

Tf is that character?

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u/I-have-Arthritis-AMA Mar 27 '24

It’s an old English and Germanic character, it is mostly deprecated, but still used in icelandic and maybe some tribal nordic germanic languages. It is pronounced the same as “th” (such as in that (þat)) It basically means the same thing as ð.

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u/chillpill_23 Mar 27 '24

Why its resurgence?

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u/I-have-Arthritis-AMA Mar 27 '24

Convenience, its seen as something that was taken away from us.

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u/General_assassin Mar 27 '24

But it's not convenient to anyone on the average English keyboard...

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u/chillpill_23 Mar 28 '24

Great point. I'll assume it's teenagers yearning for unicity and edgyness until someone convinces me otherwise.
Not that there's anything wrong with that btw. We all experience that sentiment.