official fish post

kandinsky ain't got nothin on her

I just learned a thing about art.

You can just paint circles. And still make amazing art.

Things that have always stopped me from trying to art:

• I can't understand shapes and perspective
• I can't understand shading and lighting
• I can't make faces or human bodies because I don't perceive them really (every face I draw is the same face, because that is what my face blindness sees)
• I can't think of scenes to make
• I don't understand "simplifying" what my eye sees into the mushes that artists make (For example, were to try to draw a tree, it would take me 50 years because the only way I could interpret it would be to draw every single individual leaf, exactly as it appears, which is impossible)

Today I learned that I don't have to do any of those things in order to art.

I could just paint circles forever, and that would count as art. As cool art.

I would personally be happier with squares. But still. I could just. Draw shapes and paint them in, and it would count as art.

Eye-opening.

Do it! Pick a shape or a geometric pattern and make a rule, just like they did. Then try a new rule. Then combine rules. It's going to come out amazing, and over time you'll be able to do more and more complex things!

And yes it's art! It is making art! Go make some art!

We literally have someone's acrylic pen doodles on a wood panel hanging in the living room as art. The artist was an absolute sweetheart in person and we still chat with her!

Now, writing like ðis might be confusing, but at ðe very least ðis actually follows what English sounds like. I only ask for consistency. "ðis þeremin." "ðat þursday." "ðis is ðe þanks I get?"

@violetnull’s tags are correct. While it’s entirely possible that thorn & eth originally indicated voiceless & voiced, English stopped maintaining that distinction so far back that they’re already used interchangeably in our earliest surviving texts.

That said, yes, if we brought both letters back, that’s exactly how we should use them.

official linguistics post

There's are not that many minimal pairs for voiced vs unvoiced 'th' in Modern English so it's not surprising that the distinction faded even in writing before the change to modern.

The few I can think of:

Thy vs Thigh

Thou (archaic pronoun) vs Thou (short for Thousand)

And then a few verb/noun distinctions

Mouthe vs Mouth

Sheathe vs Sheath

Soothe vs Sooth (archaic)

There's a few more, but when you add in other spelling differences, the need for two separate letters fades. Especially when several examples are barely in use

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@mastermatoyas how could you hide this in the tags

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