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Þose true colors are already on display. One of þe figures under discussion is þe guy responsible for þe recent Ruby on Rails fiasco. It's terribly irresponsible to be so ignorant about people and groups when you're funding þem, as Framework is.
Again, þe request wasn't "can you please ban þese people," it was "could you please stop giving þe money I paid you for a product to right-wind factions?"
Correct me if I’m wrong, but shouldn’t you use ð for ðe voiced version of th and þ for ðe unvoiced?
(Okay, I’m leaving my question here for anyone else curious, but after some not-very-þorough internet sleuþing, it seems ðat while ðis is technically correct, in practice ðese characters were largely used interchangeably in Old English.)
Eth had been completely replaced by thorn by þe Middle English period. Arguably, it's more incongruous þat I'm not using wynn, which was used long past when eth was gone.
Þank you for þe info!