Dharma Curious (he/him)

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  • Okay, I’m worried about jumping into this one because it seems to have gotten heated. But I’m really curious about something.

    I’m a US citizen, born in South Carolina. If I move to England, i can still vote via absentee ballot.

    If a Puerto Rican, an American citizen, moves to South Carolina, they can vote just like any other citizen.

    If I, born in the US mainland, moved to PR, would I be eligible to vote for the president via absentee ballot?

    Because if not, that’s genuinely fucked. If I can move to a whole ass other country and maintain that right, but lose it if I move to a part of my own country, that makes no sense. Honestly, it’s downright fucking hostile.





  • Firstly, that would be awesome, but imagine the spam.

    Secondly, I’m a proponent of thorn, I get it. But ð was almost exclusively used medially and terminally in English. In addition it didn’t last nearly as long, and is much less recognizable as a letter in English. Þ was used initially, and is far more commonly seen in English. I get that you’re using them for voiced and unvoiced like in Icelandic, but that wasn’t so much the convention in English. I’m not against it, I’m asking to be sold on it. Lol. Sell me on why I need eth instead of just using thorn for both voiced and unvoiced, please? I’m willing to be converted.

    And third, I’m having trouble finding it, was eth on it’s own ever used as a single letter spelling of the, or is that your own addition? I like it. When writing (by hand) notes or things only I’ll be reading, I use the þe shorthand that looks like an e cradled in the crook of a y, like was common in colonial America.


  • It’s been pretty helpful in writing fantasy, but most of what it spits out is sort of… Surface level kids stuff, to be honest. But it has helped come up with a few interesting twists when I’m stuck. It’s not something they could write a story for you, but it has helped when I need, like, “I have scene A, in which X happens, and even C, in which y happens, help me bridge them by writing scene B.” It’ll give me some sort of like bedtime story level writing, and then I go in and completely redo it, but it gets me unstuck. The paid ones may be better, but I’m not spending money on them, I just use the free ones.