Re: Old Languages
| From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 4, 2001, 18:25 |
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YHL wrote:
>I would love to learn Ancient Greek, it's just trying to learn Spanish
>*and* juggle teaching *and* classes right now is probably all I can handle.
> At least the alphabet is half-familiar from years of physics and
>math. :-) Stepping-stones are useful...
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 ...
... and don't get me started on minus xi-null prime ...
Andreas
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