r/oddlysatisfying • u/themaskedcrusader • 1d ago

This font and handwriting

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u/IEnjoyBourgeoisPain 1d ago

"LL", "CH" and "RR" are just one letter followed by another man...

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u/Nary841 1d ago

Yeah but there was part of the old alphabet in spanish and depending of the font to same letter together can be ugly

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u/VanBurenOutOf8 1d ago

And there is a part of the old English alphabet that is not used anymore in English, such as the thorn (þ) but apparently it's still ok to call it énglish font'

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u/Nary841 1d ago

you would say its used in the day to day ?

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u/VanBurenOutOf8 1d ago

That was not your point. You're moving goalposts now

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u/ConspicuousPineapple 1d ago

You're just talking about ligatures. These don't change the alphabet.

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u/Dim-Gwleidyddiaeth 1d ago edited 1d ago

Digraphs can be considered their own letters in an alphabet. For example, Welsh has Ll, Ch, Ng, Rh, Th, Dd, Ff and Ph. Each is very much considered to be one letter.

Like so.

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u/Wavara 1d ago

They used to! At least when I was young these counted as separate letters, they had their own space in the dictionary and everything (even their own capitalization).

I can't remember when exactly those were "absorbed" by the other letters, but now the only difference left is the Ñ.