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xkcd #2869: Puzzles (imgs.xkcd.com)

submitted 11 months ago by randomaccount43543@lemmy.world to c/xkcd@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Dumbkid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 11 months ago (2 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

[–] Pipoca@lemmy.world 14 points 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.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's called "thorn"

[–] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

you mean yorn

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

þorn

[–] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

not on my christian lemmy server