Are you sure? They're both unvoiced th, which is what thorn is for if you intend to distinguish.
I can't tell whether Old English used eth for those words early on - though the unvoiced quality in modern English makes that seem unlikely. Did we also devoice them? Eth died out fairly quickly in favour of thorn in all cases, voiced or not. Possibly because its name is "eþ" not "eð". It doesn't even use itself. (Though, ironically, 'w' also doesn't and it replaced ƿynn, which does.)
There was another commenter - actually might have been the same guy, I'm not all that sure - who did use eth for voiced instances, to similar controversial effect in comment sections.
We have a diacritic in English text already. Rather than above or below, it goes to the right of the letter it modifies and looks an awful lot like a letter h.
And if you don't quite buy that, remember that a lot of diacritics started life as letters that were eventually moved above a preceding letter and then simplified. The tilde on ñ was an n itself; the ring on å was another a; and in at least some cases the umlaut was an e.
Modifying-h may only be stuck where it is because technology did away with the need for economical scribes before they had a chance to start messing with it.
"deal with it all" is the falling on your behind repeatedly and not being discouraged by it. If that requires being a one in a million athlete, sure, that's what I'm saying.
With a statement like that, there's no middle ground. Either you're a unicorn of a parent who can deal with it all or you're leaving someone else with most of the burden.
Beard gives me a chin, which is otherwise weak. (This is apparently a common problem in modern humans. Too much utensil use and not enough flesh tearing begets a reduced jaw.)
Even so, I take it off occasionally because, even when washed well, it will begin to literally irritate me.
It's my own hair. It's not supposed to do that. And yet...
Once I've been through the recommended deep breathing exercises, I lay still for as long as possible, and then, if I've not fallen asleep, I get up, turn on the computer and do something mindless in Minecraft until I'm tired. I might watch videos online. I have Redshift installed which reddens the screen at night, so I don't get too much blue light.
It usually takes an hour or three and then I'm ready to try sleeping again.
Or at least, that was the case until I got on new medication which helps with falling and staying asleep. Now, if I do wake up with mind spinning, it's usually three or four hours before I get up anyway, so I do all the above but don't go back to bed at the end of it. I just have something for breakfast and then carry on a normal day.
I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I've felt the need for a depression nap since I've been on them. Doesn't mean my depression is cured, but I'm almost never tired enough during the day to want to take one.
Not sure there's any scientific basis behind the time of day a person is born and their preferred wakefulness hours in later life, but hey maybe it's the case in some circumstances.
Not so in mine. I was a morning birth, but my preferred rising time for as long as I've had a choice has always been closer to noon. 10am is my 6am, you might say.
I would not be surprised if there's a genetic link. One of my parents is also a late riser (at least, preferentially), and I've inherited that.
Deaf people will almost unavoidably copy the mouth shapes they've seen when other people have spoken. This means that how they sound will be at least somewhat informed by any hearing people they observe as well as indirectly through other deaf people who have also learned from hearing folks.
So yes, aspects of voice accent do carry over to deaf people.
There's also the concept of "accent" within sign language too. How people move between signs, carry themselves and act when expressing an emotion, which is usually exaggerated for the sake of clear communication, can vary from community to community, even if the base sign language is the same.
Decades ago, someone wrote a source filter for Perl that allowed for programming Perl-wise in Latin. To the point of conjugating and declining correctly, or at least in a manner that resembled correctness.
I figure with a sufficiently commanding voice you could do much the same with that as with this.
When I got rid of mine, I made a list of all the media I still wanted a copy of and then, over time, found second-hand or new old stock DVD versions online. That was ten years ago and I've still not broken the cling wrap on some of the replacements I bought. Just goes to show how much I really needed them!
That said, my collection was far less than 100, so your collection might be an expensive endeavour to replace.
Tapes with crud recorded from TV and computers went to landfill. All the commercial ones went in a consignment I had a charity organisation collect along with a lot of other things I was clearing out at the same time. In 2025, I'm not sure charities will accept them any more.
I did manage to digitise some of the stuff from the TV / computer ones with an old VCR and a TV card in the computer, but that must be coming up on 20 years ago now. That's all on a DVD around here somewhere. In one of those multi-disc wallets. Remember those?
They can still be had online if you feel like paring down the space your DVDs take up. People used to use them for burned DVDs, of course, but there's nothing stopping you from putting legit DVDs in one. Make a separate binder for the DVD covers if you really want to, and send the cases to landfill or recycling.
If you want to go really nuts, do the same with Blu-rays.
I do regret getting rid of a few things during that clear-out, but maybe only one tape had some sentimental value. And yet, if I'd kept it, I'm think I'd be equally disturbed that I didn't get rid of it with the rest of them.
I've also known and used it occasionally since the 90's but have never felt the need to find out its version number until today.
It took me an embarrassingly long time to find that information for my installation. xeyes does not report its own version number like newer programs generally do, and it's not in the manual page or as a hidden string in the executable either as best as I can tell.
I eventually found it in /usr/share/docs/x11-apps/changelog.gz, which in retrospect seems obvious, but it wasn't at the time.
You are [...] implying that people of (generally) Asian religions need to change their iconography
That is not and was not my intent, and I was less sure of yours until just now. (This may be reading (in)comprehension on my part, to which I'll be happy to admit fault.)
So, let me make sure I'm understanding you. Are you saying that you think that any and all gains from bigoted or unethical sources should be thrown away and that we should have nothing to do with them?
I understand why people would be extremely uncomfortable with some of these and I even think that where we can, we should avoid them, but we can't get rid of everything.
If we must insist on everything then the whole of humanity needs to get in the sea because we're all products of humanity's inhumanity if you go back far enough. In many cases, it's not that far.
If we say "nothing" then we give way to terrible people and let them have free reign.
So tell me. Where is the line? I still think that's a fairly difficult question, even if you don't.
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