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Socialist

16 (32%)

Green

8 (16%)

Peace and Freedom

2 (4%)

Democratic

1 (2%)

Transhumanist

11 (22%)

Libertarian

8 (16%)

Republican

2 (4%)

Constitution

2 (4%)

Total Members Voted: 49

[wierd]

Given how English "assaults foreign languages in dark alleys to rifle their pockets", the English language most certainly does have additional letters.

Like this one

Æ

People just routinely misspell it.  Such as Æon-- which they (mis)spell as Aeon.

In the past, it even had such funny things as the "Long S" (similar to, but distinct from German ß)-- ſ.

[pisskop]

ayy lmao
Æ lmao

[Bumber]

But do we use thorn or eth?

(I suspect the answer is "yes".)

[scriver]

Æ isn't a different letter from AE. Just like VV isn't a different letter from W.

Also iirc ſ is just how they used to write S back in medieval calligraphy. You can trust me on this, I took a high school calligraphy course I don't remember much from

[wierd]

no, short s was written 's',  while long s was written with the funny ſ ligature.


see also, how "Congress" is spelled on the bill of rights.

[dragdeler]

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[scriver]

That's clearly written ßs

Yes I'm using the German sign because phone

Just pretend it's the f s

[A Thing]

Also, I'm not making any thread title change to recognize the horror LW has brought upon my once-glorious polling thread.

LW is just giving the people what they want MSH. When there are no official polls, the unofficial becomes official.

[Maximum Spin]

ſ is a separate grapheme from s, but not a separate letter. It's just a different way of writing s in some contexts, much like final vs medial sigma in Greek, or the four ways of writing several Arabic letters. Specifically, it's used only in a non-initial medial position where it is not preceded by another ſ. Indeed, German ß is literally just ſs (though with some ſz ancestry mixed in there).

(BTW, ſ isn't a ligature. A ligature is two or more letters bound together, like ß or ff or even fl.)

[A_Curious_Cat]

But do we use thorn or eth?

(I suspect the answer is "yes".)

Before the printing press, thorn (uppercase "Þ", lowercase "þ")  was used to represent the voiceless dental fricative (the "th" in "then", "thin" and "think").
Eth (uppercase "ᴆ", lowercase "ð") was used to represent the voiced dental fricative (the "th" in "bathe" and "lathe").

Æ isn't a different letter from AE. Just like VV isn't a different letter from W.

Also iirc ſ is just how they used to write S back in medieval calligraphy. You can trust me on this, I took a high school calligraphy course I don't remember much from

Aesc  (uppercase "ᴁ", lowercase "æ") was used to used to represent the near-open front unrounded vowel (the "a" in "bat", "cat", and "ash").

[scriver]

Yes that's what AE is

Also, I'm not making any thread title change to recognize the horror LW has brought upon my once-glorious polling thread.

LW is just giving the people what they want MSH. When there are no official polls, the unofficial becomes official.

The name already fits it anyway

[Cruxador]

shit, let's be cringe

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I feel like the creator of this poll had quite a shallow understanding of the subject matter, which strongly hinders the value of the thing. Also, every example "meme" was shit.

I got 2.21, 2.37 for what little it's worth.

I also don't search for memes, I feel like anyone who does is drastically missing the point.

On a rather annoyingly approrpriate note,

We don't need to name any generations after the zoomers, so it's fine that z is the last letter. The zoomers will be the last generation to live to adulthood, so it's actually quite appropriate.

Explaining a joke only kills it. People who didn't get it to begin with gain nothing from you having done so.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Look buddy, I don't read posts that are before my post. That ain't whistling Dixie. My post is where the party starts, and therefore where the joke is born.

[A Thing]

this thread is an anarcho-monarchist free state dammit and MSH is the Monarch.

[Egan_BW]

I'll only accept a monarch who's from north carolina.