Re: Old Languages

Quoting Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>:

> Speaking of Greek letters in math, I've got math prof who absolutely
> loves using lowercase xi, most commonly for a certain undetermined value of
> a variable x. Now, of course, lowercase xi is about the most undrawable
> character I've ever come across ...
I agree. None of my Greek profs ever bothered to distinguish it
from a vertical squiggle when writing it on the board.  Presumably,
after you've been writing the character for decades, you'd think
it would become easier to draw.  Apparently not.

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"If a man demands justice, not merely as an abstract concept,
but in setting up the life of a society, and if he holds, further,
that within that society (however defined) all men have equal rights,
then the odds are that his views, sooner rather than later, are going
to set something or someone on fire." Peter Green, in _From Alexander
to Actium_, on Spartan king Cleomenes III

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