rangifer’s diary: pt. cl: It’s all Greek to me
How well do you know your classics?
Surely Lūdibrium (“mockery, laughingstock; toy” < lūdus “primary school; game, play, fun”) is by birthright, or at least by name, as Latinate as Ovid. There’s just one problem: Latin was written in materially the same alphabet as used for English (at least nowadays) and, no less, its honest inheritors the Romance languages — not to mention so very many others. Not quite as familiar as Hangeul, but still not very exotic.
Thankfully, so long as the goal is to give off vaguely Western Classical Antiquity™ vibes, we have another orthography up our sleeves: Greek (known to graphic designers as GRSSK). Sure, Órbis is supposed to be the Hellenic one, but Ancient Grease has enough for the whole family.
Let’s turn those frowns upside down, shall we?
(The Z-looking one is an uppercase Greek letter zeta. The lowercase is ⟨ζ⟩.)
| transcription | ρ | ⁚ | Ζ | δ | ι | Ω | ω |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| transformation | ↻ | ↔ | ↻ | ||||
| Romanisation | r | . | Z | d | i | Ō | ō |
Ah yes, r.ZdiŌō. My favourite LEGO® set.
(…cnvpstdf…)
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I’m not currently working on any diary entries, and I’ve no particular plans to start back up — nor to never start back up — in spite of being pretty behind at this point. I mean, for starters, unicolor is so ahead of this sh∗rt.
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