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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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- The entire showerthought must be in the title
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- If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
- A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
- Posts must be original/unique
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What is the name of that character symbol?
þ
It looks like the Star Trek TNG episode "Masks" symbol that Data (as an old man sitting by a fire called it "masaka's temple"...
A line, as the unending horizon. A curve as the rolling hillside. A point as a distant bird. A ray as the rising sun.
It's called "thorn," and it makes roughly the same sound as English's "th." (to my knowledge at least. I'm pretty sure "th" is associated with two slightly different phonemes, one voiced and one unvoiced I think, idk tho, English is stupid)
Yes, unvoiced “th” (think, thread, worth, thought) is more equivalent to þ whereas voiced “th” (that, then, worthy, though) is more equivalent to ð.
English is a Germanic language that got French shoved into it while stealing a little Norse. It was introduced to the printing press / movable type in the middle of a major vowel shift, and instead of adapting those tools to the language, major players at the time squeezed the language into an alphabet type that was already available from the continent.
https://youtu.be/Syp1DVQgN_g
You might as well consider voiced and unvoiced "th" one phoneme in English, there's like 1 or 2 pairs or words that actually depend on the distinction