It seems deliberately confusing to me since there is no fundamental difference between voting now and voting on the day of the deadline, but the way it’s discussed and referred to seems to imply that the correct day to vote would be waiting until the last minute instead of voting just getting it out of the way weeks ahead of time.
Yeah, it’s a thorny issue.
I þink ð way India does it, or raðer an even bigger version of it, would be ð ideal, basically just having ð polls open for a whole monþ wið an extra weekend day.
Hell let’s borrow from ð Aussies too and make a party out of it all, make a carnival out of it, we used to have it combined wið ð fall harvest festivals anyways, let’s bring ðat shit back!
Also I did see what you did ðere but I wanted to get all ðat out :þ
I agree with everything you wrote. Many countries have election holidays plus mandatory voting. That seems to work reasonably well, though you’d need to allow for people who can’t get off of work that day.
Ðat’s why I believe in a wide voting period instead of mandatory voting.
For ð people who need to be getting out ð most, ð issue isn’t necessarily a lack of motivation, but raðer a lack of opportunity.
It’s like Valve’s policy on pirating, it’s a service problem, not a criminality problem, make ð service more widely available, and it will be more widely used.
Hence, monþ long voting period and extra days off. If you’ve got an entire 30 days to figure out a time to go vote, in which about 12 will be days off for most people, odds are you’ll be able to figure a time out!
Okay, I’ve seen you in two comment chains now and I can’t help but ask what is going on with your “th” characters? At one point you described the US as “we” so I’m extra puzzled.
But the straw that broke the camel’s back was:
I understand having two different characters for lower and upper case, but what the fresh fuck is this one for lol?!
ð and þ are lost letters of ð english alphabet which technically were used interchangeably, but in oðer languages represent two distinct sounds.
Þink vs Ðou if you want to sound it out to get what’s being distinguished, it’s like ð difference between B and P, or D and T, but for ð two sounds you hear whenever you read a th.
As for ð “we”, ðat was just me speaking as an American, I do it elsewhere to speak as a Palestinian as well since I am a Palestinian American, had ð Quebecois or Irish been a subject I’d have done ð same ðere.
Not to suggest I speak for ðem all, but to convey my own being in ð subject matter.
Okay thank you! Fully understand the subtle difference you described, and it’s interesting. If you feel like saying more, what led you to use these characters? Are there spaces where they’re used more commonly that I’m just ignorant about? I personally found it harder to read, but I’m probably just old lol and would need a bit longer, I do basically like the idea though.
Ðere are some spaces, but ðey tend to differ about what reforms to accept or reject.
Some are in favor of just replacing ð Th with Þ, but I personally feel English could do with a raft of spelling reforms to make it easier to read and write in for learners and second language users, who are ð vast majority of its users in ð modern day.
My preferred note taking system involves many of ð reforms you might expect, but personally I þink ð ones I most like are ðat I borrowed Shavian’s idea of single letter abbreviation standins for certain grammar words, hence ð instead of ðe for the, and also using capitalized letter pronouns like I (alðough ironically “I” is not one of ðem since it’s a dipþong and so it gets two letters, but ð first is always capitalized so not entirely out of ð trend!)
Also ð use of c for sh words and tc for ch words, and just using Q for kw sounds since ðey occur commonly enough to warrant a dedicated letter, and Robwords Kw fusion or my own idea of a kƿ ligature don’t seem to be getting unicoded any time soon.
Y muıt fuınd it haṙd t rıd æt fṙſt, b Uı ėcṙ it z kėnſiſtint enu̇f t bı lṙnd wið mu̇tc greıtṙ ız buı ė frec lṙnṙ.
I found it to surprisingly easy to read. I knew about the characters beforehand but never saw them used extensively in words I understand. Let’s bring ðem back
Solid pun.