tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10018950.post3679574692045575782..comments2023-05-12T07:41:24.915-05:00Comments on wm blathers: The Lunacy of the Lunate Sigma: A RantWmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10894049524583247454noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10018950.post-5808170682291230012009-07-22T22:24:31.590-05:002009-07-22T22:24:31.590-05:00Though, it's worth noting that my typical hand...Though, it's worth noting that my typical handwriting in Latin or Greek script is uncial in form, and thus my Greek uncials have lunate sigmas exclusively -- but, I also don't write smooth breathing marks, and, as they are uncials, no lowercase, so ...<br /><br />Still, I agree with you on the importance of word shape to word recognition.L. Amadeus Ranieriushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04410940981146987024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10018950.post-18555167310412626422009-07-22T22:21:59.561-05:002009-07-22T22:21:59.561-05:00Μάλιστά γε.Μάλιστά γε.L. Amadeus Ranieriushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04410940981146987024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10018950.post-17955580619070116262006-12-12T17:35:00.000-06:002006-12-12T17:35:00.000-06:00I like that you have an entire category for rants....<i>I like that you have an entire category for rants.</i><br /><br />Well, you know. Truth in advertising.<br /><br /><i>I think it makes more sense than the lunate sigma at least, but, even so, I think it's an even bigger pain is the neck. The iota subscript is like a dative slapping me in the face, </i><br /><br />Exactly! It's not clear to me that making the subscript adscript provides greater understanding, while I do know it adds ambiguity, especially when long alpha is involved.<br /><br /><i> but I'm afraid that the Fraktur face is going to give me bad dreams.</i><br /><br />The print is fine. If you learn to read Fraktur <i>handwriting</i> you will become a friend to all geneologists.Wmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10894049524583247454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10018950.post-79240605956218114202006-12-11T21:26:00.000-06:002006-12-11T21:26:00.000-06:00I like that you have an entire category for rants....I like that you have an entire category for rants.<br /><br />Well, if you end up reading Demeter for that class as well, and you decide to have a look at Richardson's edition, be prepared for more lunates. I had it checked out of my library for the better part a year, so it doesn't phase me anymore. I haven't seen the lunates in an OCT, but the ones in R.'s book were nice enough, although I never got used to the uppercase ones, probably because I didn't seem them much.<br /><br />And now I'm going to get you started on the iota adscript: I'm nearing the end of Prometheus Bound using the edition of Griffith from the Cambridge series, which uses the iota adscript, and I'm still not used to it at all. I think it makes more sense than the lunate sigma at least, but, even so, I think it's an even bigger pain is the neck. The iota subscript is like a dative slapping me in the face, and now I find myself hesitating over these unfamiliar vowel combinations, and thinking maybe I should study my paradigms more thoroughly, and then it strikes me. You'd think after about a thousand lines I'd have it down, but just as I'm getting somewhat used to it, I'm going to be done with it (or so I hope).<br /><br />I want to learn German to access some of the classical scholarship, but I'm afraid that the Fraktur face is going to give me bad dreams.<br /><br />I guess I should just be grateful for any typefaces, and that I can read Homer without unrolling anything, or trying to read miniscule manuscripts written in cursive by candlelight with bad pens.Nicholashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02321095552162162143noreply@blogger.com