• adarza@piefed.ca
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      3 months ago

      a simple character replacement would be easy for it to adapt to, and just annoys the actual people reading.

        • aldhissla@piefed.world
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          3 months ago

          Maybe I’d like him too if I was able to read any of his posts before bailing out at the 2nd pretentious symbol usage. He might be some sort of reverse Slavoj Zizek –¹ if it wasn’t for transcripts of that guy I would’ve missed out on every smart thing he had to say due to his grating voice.

          Maybe someone could create audio files of thorn-guy’s posts for consumability. Maybe with the voice of Zizek for the lulz.

          Piss on carpet, dear flurgoms

          ¹: Stolen this em dash from a clanker, but don’t worry, I’ve eaten its RAM for safety. It can’t hurt you anymore.

              • FundMECFS@piefed.zip
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                3 months ago

                Same it’s really not that hard. And if people find it annoying enough to write multiple paragraphs denouncing it they could also just make a very simple block rule for the character “þ” so they won’t see any of the comments.

                • AFK BRB Chocolate (CA version)@lemmy.ca
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                  3 months ago

                  Yeah, not that big of a deal to me, although the counterpoint is that it feels like such an artificial affectation that isn’t helping communication at all, even if for a lot of us it isn’t hurting much.

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                3 months ago

                I got used to it really quickly.

                It even got me looking up a bunch about old runes. Maybe we should bring back ᛝ, ŋ (ing); then the word thing looks like þŋ or ᚦᛝ