Famous Australian restauranteur Paul Mathis has invented a new symbol that he hopes will replace the word "the" in everyday communications. Written much like the cyrillic letter "Ћ" and pronounced "th," it's a typographic ligature of an uppercase T and a lowercase h. "The word 'and' is only the fifth-most used word in English," Mathis tells The Age, 'and it has its own symbol – the ampersand... isn't it time we accorded the same respect to 'the'?"
Mathis has invested around $75,000AUD (see update) into developing the symbol, and believes it will save us all lots of time. As The Age points out, it'll also allow for longer tweets. The idea of cutting letters to save time isn't without precedent — the ampersand itself is a ligature of the Latin word for and, "et." Businesses have also toyed with the concept in the past; General Motors famously issued a company-wide directive stating that the word "employee" should be shortened to "employe" to save time and company ink.
To hammer his point home, Mathis has crafted a range of Android keyboards called "THE Keyboard," which all include the Ћ symbol. The most expensive (and convoluted) of the keyboards also includes shortcuts for the 14 next most-used words in the English language.
Update: We just spoke to Mathis about his campaign and he's informed us that he may have been a little off with his original estimate of how much he'd spent so far. He's only spent $38,000AUD (roughly $34,000) over the last two years, with the vast majority of the money going towards web design and app development.
Ligatures often find their use in linguistics and are promoted to letter (a prominent example is æ). I would understand if Ћ ћ were pushed as a replacement to the "th" digraph. But replacing the "the" article with a letter sounds ridiculous, as much as "&" representing "and".
How Ћ fuck is anyone suppose to get used to Ћs fucking shit. Well it aint Ћ revolution in my mind.
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Very nice, congratulations. For what it's worth, neurology is more prestigious, but internal medicine is more sought after I think (but also more popular). At least how it is here in Israel.
Guess it kinda depends where you are exactly, I'd go for the specialisation that gives you most opportunities to do what you love and learn more about it. Most hospitals here lean more towards certain specialisations, so you get more opportunities for research in those areas, as well as better equipment. The hospital near me for example is quite big on Neurology, couple of months ago they installed some big ass MRI which apparently was a very big deal, since it's one of 3 in the world
tnx I still have so much to do ..I still can't speak german properly ..I have to get used to totally different healthcare system , I need more practice and I need to learn more ofc.. it's not easy but I'm really trying..
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I can see Ћis is going to take a while 
only few hours during the week , a bit more during weekends.. 
