https://xkcd.com/2869

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Why couldn’t the amulet have been hidden by Aunt Alice, who understands modern key exchange algorithms?

  • Dumbkid@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 months ago

    Also “ye” in olde English is just pronounced the. It’s wasn’t a y it was used for the letter thorn which made the th sound. They never said ye. So there’s no way the Spanish would translate to fake old english

    • Pipoca@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Ish.

      There’s ye as in “hear ye, hear ye”. That’s a y. It’s an inflected form of you, much as they had both thee and thou.

      Then there’s writing þe as ye.

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      11 months ago

      Eh, technically, if the word following ‘the’ starts with a vowel sound, you’re supposed to say tge-with-a-long-e - the apple, the orange, the event, etc.