• PhlubbaDubba
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    209 hours ago

    IIRC Norway has an actual Nat ID system, so assuming they 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.

    • @CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social
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      118 hours 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”? 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.

      • @mannycalavera@feddit.uk
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        21 hour 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.

      • @catloaf@lemm.ee
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        225 hours ago

        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”.

        • RBG
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          64 hours ago

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

      • @elliot_crane@lemmy.world
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        65 hours ago

        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.

      • GreyBeard
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        26 hours ago

        A møøse once bit my sister.