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Nothing stopping you. I do, when I'm writing. As any written communication from me is typed, only a few people know this. Incidentally, thorn and yogh are
by DonaldFisk 6y ago
Nothing stopping you. I do, when I'm writing. As any written communication from me is typed, only a few people know this.
Incidentally, thorn and yogh are still occasionally used today: thorn (written as y) at the beginning of some pub names, e.g. "Ye Olde Mitre Inn", and yogh (written as z) in some Scottish surnames: Menzies (traditionally pronounced "mingus"), Dalziel (pronounced "dee-el"), Mackenzie (derived from Gaelic MacCoinnich, but now with a spelling pronunciation in English).
- Accacin 6y agoHeh, when I was younger I went through a phrase of writing almost everything in Anglo-Saxon runes.
- Baeocystin 6y agoIt happened to me, too. I blame Ultima IV!
- 082349872349872 6y agoI blame The Hobbit.
- stordoff 6y agoParticularly when it's just notes for yourself. My own writing has a variety of influences, mostly for speed and legibility, used fairly inconsistently: * (ab)uses of mathematical notation (three dots - ∴/∵ - for therefore/because; definition/solution/information become def^n/sol^n/inform^n; iff for if and only if) * print but using ƒ for f and a cursive/rounded k * 7 and Z have a bar (like Ƶ, to aid in distinguishing from 1/2) * 1.8K becomes 1K8 (mostly for resistors, but occasionally 1800 in any context becomes 1K8 and 1,800,000 1M8, particularly when writing fast) * there's an occasional touch of Japanese (mostly mo/も for as well, and ya/や for a non-exhaustive and)