what is the purpose of some of these weird unicode characters


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today in "Felthry has been reminded of the existence of the character map":
ⱺꝅ⩐ᵺⱴʨ
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@lioness it is apparently "closed union with smash product"
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@lioness we have no idea what that means, you'd probably have to ask a mathematician and then it'd have to be one in a very particular subfield
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@lorxus @lioness oh actually it's "closed union with serifs and smash product"

if you don't know what the serifless one means you probably don't know what the serifs do either though
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@Felthry @lorxus @lioness That sounds less like a math thing and more like a custom burger joint order.

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