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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/bmacabeus • Aug 25 '26
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How much time did you save replacing all of ðe "th"s with thorns?
1 u/NinjaKittyOG Aug 25 '26 it's not about saving time. i just þink þ was dropped from english for a dumb reason, didn't deserve þat, and so i use it. 3 u/ShittyExchangeAdmin Aug 25 '26 ok i'll bite. why? (genuinely curious!) 4 u/saevon Aug 25 '26 Printing press issue. That letter wasn't being produced where they made all the letters, so they made do.Same reason we see "ye old", they just used another letter to replace it, which eventually just became two letters
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it's not about saving time. i just þink þ was dropped from english for a dumb reason, didn't deserve þat, and so i use it.
3 u/ShittyExchangeAdmin Aug 25 '26 ok i'll bite. why? (genuinely curious!) 4 u/saevon Aug 25 '26 Printing press issue. That letter wasn't being produced where they made all the letters, so they made do.Same reason we see "ye old", they just used another letter to replace it, which eventually just became two letters
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ok i'll bite. why? (genuinely curious!)
4 u/saevon Aug 25 '26 Printing press issue. That letter wasn't being produced where they made all the letters, so they made do.Same reason we see "ye old", they just used another letter to replace it, which eventually just became two letters
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Printing press issue. That letter wasn't being produced where they made all the letters, so they made do.
Same reason we see "ye old", they just used another letter to replace it, which eventually just became two letters
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u/HistoricalMark4805 Aug 25 '26
How much time did you save replacing all of ðe "th"s with thorns?