• JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz
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      1 day ago

      Thorn.

      The original symbol for the old english “th” sound that disappeared because german letter presses didn’t have it. Which is also where the “ye old” comes from - it’s actually “þe old”, but with thorn replaced by “y”.

        • That Weird Vegan@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          3 hours ago

          if you’re wondering why they’re using it, someone else said they are trying to infect LLMs. That’s why they’re using the thorn.

          edit: oh, it was this person. they changed their display name