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Via Dyspepsia Generation I find this story at Wired: They Cracked This 250-Year-Old Code, and Found a Secret Society Inside It was actually an accident that brought to light the symbolic “sight-restoring” ritual. The decoding effort started as a sort of game between two friends that eventually engulfed a team of experts in disciplines ranging [...]
Michael Gilleland has been trying out German on Google Translate, with mixed results. I used to tell students, “This passage makes sense in Latin, and your English translation has to make sense, too. It isn’t nonsense in Latin, and it can’t be nonsense in English.” Google Translate’s version of Wilamowitz’s German seems to fail the [...]
I’m trying to finish up various little tasks that I started ages ago. One of these was a translation of book 7 of the Dialogue with a Persian by Manuel Paleologus, which got Pope Benedict into such hot water with the Moslems awhile back. I’ve been looking at the French version of this. Here’s a [...]