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Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media (www.euractiv.com)
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (6 children)

IIRC Norway has an actual Nat ID system, so assuming ðey develop a workable API for it ðis could actually be implemented quite easily.

Preventing kids stealing ðeir parents' IDs to open accounts anyway will be ð actual challenge.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)

Is there a reason that you use some character (I'm afraid I don't know the name of it) wherever you would otherwise use "th"? I can't guess if it's some kind of technical issue with federated text, something from a different language you're incorporating, or one of those "I think we should add x symbol to the language so I'll use it to draw attention to the effort" deals, like with the people that use the combined !? symbols whenever both are relevant at once.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

It's a thorn, a letter making a th sound. Still in use in Icelandic, I think. In English, it's archaic at best.

Fun fact, when it fell out of use, the letter Y was used to replace it for a while. So when you see something saying "ye olde", verbally it's still "the old".

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 weeks ago

I actually always wondered about the y in old texts. Thanks!

[–] kryptonite 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It's eth, actually, not thorn.

I had thought that eth was used in Old English for the voiced "th" and thorn for the unvoiced "th", but Wikipedia says they were used interchangeably for both sounds.

You're right otherwise. Thorn was not available on printing presses because they were being made in countries that didn't use the letter, which is why the letter Y was used instead until "th" became more common.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eth

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

That's a shame, I would have loved to keep using those thorns and eths. Quite weird to think that they didn't even want to ask for a few customs pieces for those letters.

[–] elliot_crane 15 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I’m probably doing exactly what they want here (e.g. having a conversation about it), but that letter is called “Eth” and was the Old English way of spelling the “th” sound: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eth

A number of linguistic buffs want to bring it back to the modern English alphabet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

~~I don't think ð was pronounced exactly the same way as th~~Seems like I was thinking of other languages where they were/are pronounced differently.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

A møøse once bit my sister.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

This commenter has been sacked.

[–] Agent641 5 points 4 weeks ago

What ð heck are are you talking about, it looks normal. To me. Maybe ðeres someðing wrong wið your computer.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago

Is there a reason that you use some character (I'm afraid I don't know the name of it) wherever you would otherwise use "th"?

Passive aggressive typing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

So then the kids will just use a VPN

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Yup, ProtonVPN is free, and there are covert ways to purchase other VPNs (i.e. cash in an envelope).

All this would do is make it much harder for their parents to figure out what their kids are doing. If they can access it w/o a VPN, a regular internet logger can help inform parents of their traffic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

Kids often have no money, especially not money they can spend online, no?

[–] idiomaddict 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

so assuming they develop

Psst… ðey

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 weeks ago

Þkſ m8

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Whats that O with an aeroplane?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

It's the original English letter for th which was more or less deleted from the alphabet when imported printing press types lacked said letter.

Before it got universally replaced by th some printers used y like in "ye olde" which is really pronounced "the old"

[–] meliaesc 2 points 4 weeks ago

neat, thanks!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 weeks ago

could actually be implemented quite easily.

Without any risk for sure....

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

No need of this. Make a mandatory physical check of the ID that can't be subcontracted. People want an account? They need to go to an office and open it there like it was the case in the past for a bank account.