Ancient Greek for practical communication?

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anphph
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That is quite wonderful. And language learning & practising by necessity sounds ideal!

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Anthony Appleyard wrote:I have heard of cases when someone wrote personal records in Ancient Greek because he did not want everybody who came across the text to be able to understand it.
For the best in secrecy, invent your own language for your diary!

I seem to recall receiving email about Aoidoi in Greek once. That's been it, apart from snippets of Greek in letter correspondence with other Textkittens.
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In a similar vein, there is the world news at http://www.akwn.net/ which gives some current news in Ancient Greek. Hit the latest news button.
Jean K.

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I have heard of cases when someone wrote personal records in Ancient Greek because he did not want everybody who came across the text to be able to understand it.
Enoch Powell, a classicist and former MP in the UK, did just this.

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Post by quickly »

I do believe Schrödinger took lab notes in classical Greek, as well.

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quickly wrote:I do believe Schrödinger took lab notes in classical Greek, as well.
Woah. :shock:
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annis wrote:For the best in secrecy, invent your own language for your diary!
For THE best in secrecy, encrypt your diary with AES and a strong key. :wink:

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Or learn and use Sumerian or Ancient Egyptian in your diary. Anyone who deciphers the contents is worthy of reading it.
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