This is only a test.

[orichalcum]

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.)

Comments

[ladybird97.livejournal.com]

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? :)

[emilymorgan.livejournal.com]

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.

[karakara98.livejournal.com]

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.

[a-dodecahedron.livejournal.com]

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.