• Logi@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Right, so you’re just arbitrarily changing words. That’s very nice.

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      4 days ago

      In recent years tho & thru have been increasingly more common than though & through. Common words tend to do this—the is a top-10 usage word in English. Makes sense.

      Look on how you go from Latin ET/et to &. Turns a common word into a single symbol. Or similar a (and an) coming from Old English ān with cognates in Old Frisian, German, Norse, Saxon, and Gothic with forms like “ein” further being reduced.

      If there is a historical precendence for this happening, there is no reason to assume the language’s writing would not, could not, or should not evolve similarly.