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[–] 23 points 2 months ago (24 children)

I can þink of anoðer couple candidates.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago* (18 children)

    There's also thiſ.

    The 'long s'.

    An f without the crossbar, ſ , sometimes more fully shaped at the bottom, like the integral symbol.

    As best I can tell... linguists have not actually been able to figure out totally consistent rules for its usage, beyond 'it replaces s, sometimes'.

    It seems to pretty much be purely stylistic flair, everyone who did use it seems to have slightly different rules for how and in what circumstances they did. It tends to follow certain broader rules, but counterexamples can be found for most of them.

    ... I wonder if we could merge old/middle english characters and l33t sp33k.

    ð4t aſſ B b0unc1n, æ'r3 d4y, æ'r3 9t

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (16 children)

    I learned about ſ from House of Leaves.

    “ſtaires! We haue found ſtaires!”

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago* (13 children)

    The Constitution of the USA

    The actual literal written document makes considerable use of ' ſ ', this is from a rare typed version that does as well.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (9 children)

    no way. i knew it used the long S in the handwritten one, but i never knew there were typed versions. this is a find

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-forgotten-copy-of-the-constitution-discovered-in-a-filing-cabinet-could-sell-for-millions-180985060/

    Indeed it was, fetched a pretty penny via Sotheby's auction.

    Hilariously... was discovered during an estate sale (garage sale for rich people) in North Carolina.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    Estate sales aren't garage sales for rich people. They're garage sales for dead people. Hence the word estate. It's the estate of the deceased holding the sale, not the deceased. Legal bullshit mumbo gumbo, but there you have it

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    True, my mistake, I accidentally made a false e-statement.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    how dare you be incorrect on the internet.

    i just thought i'd share a factoid i knew from one of my old professional lives

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (4 children)

    And how dare you sir, not even pretend to acknowledge my terrible pun!

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    aw fuck i'm too high for puns

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    Ŧo Đ/đ, Ŧ/ŧ are also cool, more historically accurate(thorn and eth were never as clean cut as we like to ŧink) and fit the vibe of đe english alphabet better.

    Edit: actually used đ and ŧ to show them in use.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I don’t like either of these because they aren’t unique enough to easily speed read. The þ is a p and b and confuses my brain and the ð is just a little too small for the cross at the top on many fonts. At least ø and æ are unique enough to my eyes.

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