Does exactly what it says on the tin. Some of the nonsense contained herein may be very loosely related to The Sisters of Mercy, but I wouldn't bet your PayPal account on it. In keeping with the internet's general theme nothing written here should be taken as Gospel: over three quarters of it is utter gibberish, and most of the forum's denizens haven't spoken to another human being face-to-face for decades. Don't worry your pretty little heads about it. Above all else, remember this: You don't have to stay forever. I will understand.
I'm only hingin' oan tae 00:00 so ah kin stert thi Big Yin's Ah Bidet thread...
"And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. For me, it's a frightening thought to go nowhere".
~ Peter Steele
mh wrote:But don't worry, at least we don't all speak like that in real life...
Eh, whit!?
"And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. For me, it's a frightening thought to go nowhere".
~ Peter Steele
mh wrote:I've to take at least partial responsibility for joining in.
But don't worry, at least we don't all speak like that in real life...
You *don't*?! Well, dammit, that's no fun! I was expecting o0o0o0odles of folks whose accents were worthy of my annoying mimicry... *Sigh*
see Post #61
"And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. For me, it's a frightening thought to go nowhere".
~ Peter Steele
Izzy HaveMercy wrote:It WAS becoming a rather interesting linguistical thread...
And yes, we had Ancient Greek in school, because I followed Modern Languages, which made for (at ages 17 and 18):
Dutch (4 hrs), French (5 hrs), English (4hrs), German (4 hrs), Latin (4 hrs), Ancient Greek (4 hrs).
I blame her! She made foreign languages an option instead of being compulsory in schools, and study was only available to children over the age of 10. She also snatched my milk
markfiend wrote:Meh. To tell the truth, I'm not that hot. Puzzling out ancient texts without having to look up every word is about as far as I've got so far
That's as far as I got after 6 years of study in school
But it was a great help for understanding other, living, languages.
Even in English I understand things faster because I can see a correlation with an old Latin word or phrase.
Indeed. For instance, it helped me work out what "anabaric" lighting meant in His Dark Materials (Just started Northern Lights last night, but that's for another thread.
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
—Bertrand Russell
Greek majuscule sigma is always written as C and never as Σ, at least, I cannot recall ever having seen it written in the now familiar manner. I will run off to wikipedia and look it up now but I suspect that the sigma that we are used to is a quite modern invention.
Wiki backs this up:
In Eastern forms of Greek writing (as opposed to the Western Greek alphabet used in the European Greek colonies) and in the Middle Ages, the lunate sigma (upper case Ϲ, lower case ϲ) — which resembles, but which is not at all related to, the Latin letter C — was often used. Lunate sigma was frequently used for writing Medieval Greek, and it can still sometimes be seen in inscriptions in Greek Orthodox churches, but also in certain printed editions of classical authors. The form of the Cyrillic letter С [s] and Coptic letter sima are derived from lunate sigma.
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
—Bertrand Russell