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posted by [personal profile] orichalcum at 11:43am on 05/02/2008 under
Just to see how hard a task I'm giving students:


If you were asked to figure out the letters in this image, what would you come up with?(As many as possible.)
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posted by [identity profile] ladybird97.livejournal.com at 05:56pm on 05/02/2008
with the disclaimer that I've actually taken a class in paleography...

HIC FxIMxS xxN NOS SINII FINII SODAxxS NOMINA SI

How did I do? :)
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posted by [identity profile] orichalcum.livejournal.com at 11:45pm on 05/02/2008
Hic Fuimus cari nos sine fine sodales nomina si.

Here we are two dear men, comrades without a limit (unconditional?), if you [quaeris] wish our names (this is the mostly lost bit),they were Caius and Aulus.

I thought you would like it.
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posted by [identity profile] orichalcum.livejournal.com at 11:45pm on 05/02/2008
Here we were, sorry.
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posted by [identity profile] ladybird97.livejournal.com at 11:57pm on 05/02/2008
Ah! I thought that might be 'sodales'. And the representation of 'e' seems to have been what was messing me up. Thanks for the real transcription - I do like the passage. Yay for friends :)
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posted by [identity profile] emilymorgan.livejournal.com at 06:21am on 06/02/2008
I'm glad I'm not the only one who turned all the e's into double i's. :) Ori, I think the answer is: very hard!
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posted by [identity profile] orichalcum.livejournal.com at 02:28pm on 06/02/2008
Yeah, but in groups of five for a brief activity, where the goal is not success but teaching them to see What It's Like, I think it'll still work?

Then I give them the nice Times New Roman with spaces.
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posted by [identity profile] meepodeekin.livejournal.com at 04:32pm on 06/02/2008
If I were a student, I'd like it.
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posted by [identity profile] emilymorgan.livejournal.com at 06:41pm on 05/02/2008
HIC FINxS [wtf!!]Nx DNO NOS SINII FINII SODANIS NOMINx xI

(trying not to look at ladybird's, though I saw enough to steal her transcription system.)

Obviously I'm very very wrong on some of those! Also, I'm not convinced that some of those letters weren't in fact pictures of little brooms.
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posted by [identity profile] karakara98.livejournal.com at 10:53pm on 05/02/2008
It would drive me totally bonkers. This should surprise noone given the dyslexia, but thought I'd chime in. I can't even tell if it's Latin or Greek and I've taken them both (though egads, it's been 10+ years since I've attempted to read either). I'm only coming up with a bunch of lambdas in the last word.
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posted by [identity profile] orichalcum.livejournal.com at 11:42pm on 05/02/2008
I hadn't thought about that - lucky for you you were born after punctuation and spaces!

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posted by [identity profile] a-dodecahedron.livejournal.com at 05:38am on 06/02/2008
My first guess:

HIC-F?ILL?S CLSV D?O-NOS-SINII FINII SODL?IIS NOLLINA-SI

(where L is lambda, not L)

Now I realize I was mistaking each M for two lambdas.
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