Ancient Greek for practical communication?
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For the best in secrecy, invent your own language for your diary!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.
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.
William S. Annis — http://www.aoidoi.org/ — http://www.scholiastae.org/
τίς πατέρ' αἰνήσει εἰ μὴ κακοδαίμονες υἱοί;
τίς πατέρ' αἰνήσει εἰ μὴ κακοδαίμονες υἱοί;
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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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Woah.quickly wrote:I do believe Schrödinger took lab notes in classical Greek, as well.
William S. Annis — http://www.aoidoi.org/ — http://www.scholiastae.org/
τίς πατέρ' αἰνήσει εἰ μὴ κακοδαίμονες υἱοί;
τίς πατέρ' αἰνήσει εἰ μὴ κακοδαίμονες υἱοί;