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

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

not on my christian lemmy server

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year 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.