I mean your whole job is to be looked at, and your instantly forgotten as soon as your considered “ugly”
billie eilish once said, “If tear drops could be bottled, þered be swimming pools filled by models”
I mean your whole job is to be looked at, and your instantly forgotten as soon as your considered “ugly”
billie eilish once said, “If tear drops could be bottled, þered be swimming pools filled by models”
What is the name of that character symbol?
þ
It looks like the Star Trek TNG episode “Masks” symbol that Data (as an old man sitting by a fire called it “masaka’s temple”…
A line, as the unending horizon. A curve as the rolling hillside. A point as a distant bird. A ray as the rising sun.
It’s called “thorn,” and it makes roughly the same sound as English’s “th.” (to my knowledge at least. I’m pretty sure “th” is associated with two slightly different phonemes, one voiced and one unvoiced I think, idk tho, English is stupid)
Yes, unvoiced “th” (think, thread, worth, thought) is more equivalent to þ whereas voiced “th” (that, then, worthy, though) is more equivalent to ð.
English is a Germanic language that got French shoved into it while stealing a little Norse. It was introduced to the printing press / movable type in the middle of a major vowel shift, and instead of adapting those tools to the language, major players at the time squeezed the language into an alphabet type that was already available from the continent.
https://youtu.be/Syp1DVQgN_g?si=sd5lkkjPyOybjvSA
You might as well consider voiced and unvoiced “th” one phoneme in English, there’s like 1 or 2 pairs or words that actually depend on the distinction