Long S General

>>8686904
ſuck you

>>8686922
dubs have ſpoken, fuck me.

>>8686904
Because it's ugly.
Scharfes ß is best s

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>>8686904
It's a horrid horrid letter in deſign, confuſing to read becauſe it looks ſo much like an "f" an "l" or even a "[" and often obſcures the tittle of j's and i's. That ſaid, the long s is a really intereſting letter, and I really like ſeeing it in old documents and ſuch. I like it's ſcarcity in modern text. It's like a furtive ſecret in the alphabet, ſo that's cool knowing, even though there's not a lot of people who would otherwiſe talk about it or underſtand it if I ever write with it.

On /lit/, It was chic ſome time ago to pronounce pic related as "Paradife Loft".

Is it correct if it makes the "sh" sound?

should
or
ſhould

>>8686904
Why does the letter C exist at all? Both sounds it makes are already made by different letters (S and K)

>>8687068
In case you haven't figured it out yet, the spelling system of English doesn't really make an attempt at being phonetic after a certain point

>>8686994
Second one.

Only time to use the real "s" is in uppercase or at the end of a word.

It isn't on my keyboard and I'm too computer illiterate to reprogram the s key for long s.

>>8686986

thoſe cultured among the Engliſh really know how to pronounce their 'ſ''ſ and it ain't just "s"

>>8687078
But it leads to words like flaccid which are often mispronounced.

there's a funny line in Masters of Atlantis where a character's wife goes on about "monstrous books with Fs for Ss"

>>8686904
Ugly. ſage

>>8686904
because it's antiquated, and looks too much like an f. We've been over this 200 hundred years ago already

>>8687904
>it's le current year

>>8688061
uh yeah?

>>8686930
that's not what anon was saying
>>8687633
this one, however, might still be calling you a fage too

>>8686986
my thoughts exactly

>>8687357
you ſhouldn't berid yourſelf of s, rather accept the ſ regiem.

Because I speak and write in modern English.

Just learn German.

Þreadly reminder þat þorn is þe only obsolete Englisc letter worþ bringing back, as it is boþ æsthetic and useful.

>>8686904
> You have 10 ſeconds to explain why you don't uſe long s.
> ſeconds
> s

Why don't you?

>>8686904

That letter is not found within the endless volumes in the Library of Babel
I can't imagine that letter actually exists even
You are some sort of heresiarch

Why don't we all start writing in archaic English?

>>8690551
>claims to be Library of Babel devotee on orthographic grounds
>uses letter x

why do yov people vse that vgly rovnd 'v'

>>8687412
we'd need complete overhaul of all spelling to avoid easily mispronouned words, c is the least of our problems.

>>8691207
Didſt make this?

>>8690891
I loue this gvy

>>8686904
for some reason it sounds like a lisp in my head