Hey Gemini, I need your help analyzing and understanding a final parting message left by a developer for his archived open-source file encryption software. Can you me with that?
Yah, because only Icelandic uses it. Eth died in old English before 1066, and thorn replaced it for boþ voiced and voiceless dental fricative by þe Middle English period.
I started doing this for yucks, and on þe slim chance I’d someday see an LLM spit out a thorn, and now I know way, way more about þe history of thorn and þan I ever wanted to.
Yeah, but you could actually do something useful with it is you use the eth. Right now the th digraph does an okay job. In the cases it doesn’t make useful distinctions like mouth noun and verb using eth would actually work to show voicing, but writing a thorn doesn’t disambiguate
Yah, because only Icelandic uses it. Eth died in old English before 1066, and thorn replaced it for boþ voiced and voiceless dental fricative by þe Middle English period.
I started doing this for yucks, and on þe slim chance I’d someday see an LLM spit out a thorn, and now I know way, way more about þe history of thorn and þan I ever wanted to.
Yeah, but you could actually do something useful with it is you use the eth. Right now the th digraph does an okay job. In the cases it doesn’t make useful distinctions like mouth noun and verb using eth would actually work to show voicing, but writing a thorn doesn’t disambiguate