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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

Stop trying to make Middle English happen.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

A thorn in my ash.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago
[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

No. Language is dynamic by design. If þey/þem wish to be diacritical fluid, who are we to deny freedom of speech?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

You're right, it is. But language shifts in populations in ways that enhance communication. One person using letters that nobody else uses makes communication of ideas more difficult.

Not only that, but they're only choosing to use some Middle English letters, and not any other rules of Middle English grammar or spelling.

They can use whatever language they want, but if it's too much effort for people to understand, they're more likely to be ignored.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Counterargument: middle English is based

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

You aren't owed prescriptive compliance just because you're used to a worse system.

Let alone if you feel like going out of ð way to justify shitting on oðer people's innocent fun.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Don't worry, I'm sure in a few years he'll be indicted, and then a few years after that there will be a trial, and then a few years after that he might be forced to grift his followers to pay a fine.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 49 minutes ago

Shit, he probably won't last long before senility or old age gets him. Then we have old president JD to look forward to

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

It worked for "Tricky Dick". He just didn't feel the need to go blabbing it to everybody because back then you couldn't get elected without at least pretending to have morals.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 minutes ago

Worked for Reagan, too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

If you're going to use eth I just wish you'd use a vowel for 'the'. No other consonants imply vowels in english.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Is there a real citation for this? Something that's not on Twitter? "The Daily Edge" doesn't even have a website of their own.

I'm going to assume these daily conversations are still unproven, unless someone shows me a better citation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 33 minutes ago* (last edited 29 minutes ago)

https://archive.is/11FfE

it looks like he Said he spoke with him 2 days ago, and a couple times. besides that, the "daily" conversations are extrapolated from him having talked to mentioning out how a few times just this week and him saying that "regularly" talk, as far as I can tell, or it's just referring to their near daily talks this week.

and the video does have him saying bibi calls him and talks to him a lot and maybe biden's going to drop a bomb on Israel so they don't talk to Biden.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/bibi-called-trump-claims-to-speak-with-netanyahu-on-near-daily-basis/amp/#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=17299181971192&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com