Þe letter þorn (pronounced "thorn" for you buttheads) is an archaic letter of þe English alphabet þat made a monk's life easier by having to occasionally write one less letter in his words. When þe printing press came along, someþing someþing Germans didn't have þe letter þorn or someþing and used þe letter 'y' instead. Everybody knows German people are smart most of þe time. Þey didn't try to make þe Englishmen's problem more complicated by replacing þorn wiþ two letters.
Well, þe English made a dumb decision. When þey stopped using þe 'y' for "th" sounds and used 'th' instead; it was almost as if þey were afraid þat þe English alphabet had too many letters serving multiple phonetic sounds (which is in fact still a problem). Making 'th' mean þorn, did not solve much. Þe letter 'y' still makes multiple sounds including "yuh", "ee", and "eye". IT'S NOT ÞAT HARD TO LEARN ONE EXTRA LETTER OF ÞE ENGLISH ALPHABET! WE HAVE IT EASY COMPARED TO ÞE CHINESE! Seriously, I doubt it was þat hard to make an extra type block for þe letter þorn, and I highly doubt any of you have trouble singing þe ABC's.
Since we live in þe Information age, it has become so easy to quickly replicate texts in any language and in any alphabet, all þanks to Unicode. But what do we use þis technology for? EMOJIS! GOSH FORSAKEN EMOJIS! Despite þe introduction of emoticons, texting lingo isn't all þat bad. We can all agree þat writing '4' is easier þan writing "four". Academic scholars may disagree but "lol I luv u" is innovation... plain and simple innovation to þe English language! After all, þou no longer speakeþ likeþ þis. Þe English language has changed and subsequently improved since its birþ, and I find noþing wrong wiþ changing it even furþer! Texting lingo is probably going to be regarded as slang for a long long time. But before þat happens, let us all bring back þorn since it will sound more "academic".
Þe only obstacles preventing us from using þorn is our publishers, teachers, and employers. Oþer þan þat, no one is stopping you. Contrary to popular belief, þere is no official way to use English. Unlike French, we don't have a governing body þat makes laws on our language. Proper grammar only exists because most of us universally agree upon what constitutes "proper grammar". Þe Brits have different grammatical ideals þan þe Yanks and because of þat, we have British English and American English.
Learn the difference between thorn and eth before you start this larp. Besides what about yogh and wynn?
Henry Hughes
We have two "th" letters. ثَاء sound = þ as in "thigh" ذَال sound = ð as in "thy"
Hudson Brooks
How new?
Dominic Wood
I do know ðe difference between þorn and eð, I just copied everyþing from some website and didn't boðer correcting ðe mistakes. Yogh is not useful now since its sound fell from English use, and Wynn was replaced by W.
Jace Thompson
thy is thorn Three is eth How new?
Christian Parker
No it isn't. ð represents a voiced dental fricative [ð], which is the same as the "th" in English that.
Alexander Gomez
Literally no one in the modern day uses it though. If we suddenly started using it then it would make us look completely autistic.
But I still have no reason to write like that. I can't type þ on my keyboard easily, so it's not convenient.
Grayson Taylor
I have no problem using an Icelandic keyboard. I don't find it inconvenient at all.
Hudson Watson
I would have to add a keyboard on my laptop and on my phone to use that one letter. I would have to disable autocorrect and relearn my keyboard layout to use thorn, and only occasionally. And even still, I wouldn't have any reason to use it.
