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Cyrillic letters can be used to spice up English. Imagine having just one letter for "ch", "sh" and "th"! "She relaxed in the chair under a tree's shade" "Шe

• pavel_lishin 5mo ago
  But ф is absolutely not the sound that "th" makes. In fact, in Russian, at least, we don't have a "th" sound. But this is better than using Д in place of "A".
  • d_silin 5mo ago
    Yeah, it is just фe most aesфetically pleasing letter for фis case.
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  • LfLxfxxLxfxx 5mo ago
    Actually, for most of its existence, Cyrillic has had a θ (theta) like in Greek, used only in loanwords and pronounced either as ф (f) or т (t) because the th sound is not part of Slavic phonetics. θ was dropped fairly recently - in the 20th century.
  • tliltocatl 5mo ago
    It absolutely doesn't as pronounced now, yet Thomas is Фома, Theodor is Феодор, etc. Just like Hertz is Герц, even through Г and H are as far from each other as one can get.
    • armenarmen 5mo ago
      That h -> г always confused me when “Х” is right there
      • tliltocatl 5mo ago
        Х is ch in Bach rather than h, and apparently, anglophones can distinguish those. I can't.
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• Rendello 5mo ago
  You might enjoy Reddit's "constructed orthography" subreddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/conorthography/top/ https://old.reddit.com/r/conorthography/top/ Or you can take the plunge and make your own complete script: https://old.reddit.com/r/neography/top/ https://old.reddit.com/r/neography/top/ And if you're still not satisfied and want to spend the rest of your life making a language that no one else will care to learn: https://old.reddit.com/r/conlangs/ https://old.reddit.com/r/conlangs/