[B-Greek] Greek trivia: all the letters...

Richard Ghilardi qodeshlayhvh at juno.com
Tue May 6 23:05:05 EDT 2003


Hi All,

I couldn't get more than 20 letters in the Greek translation:

hJ alwvphx hJ tacei'a kaiV orfnivnh uJpeVr toVn rJa/vqumon kuvna
ephvdhsen.

hH ALWPHX hH TACEIA KAI ORFNINH hUPER TON hRAiQUMON KUNA EPHDHSEN.

Missing is B, G, Z and Y.

Yours in His grace,

Richard Ghilardi -- qodeshlayhvh at juno.com
New Haven, CT USA

On Tue, 6 May 2003 19:52:59 -0400 "Carl W. Conrad"
<cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu> writes:
> Clever! Yes, actually, it's a gnomic aorist, best translated into 
> English
> as a present tense. The sentence works fine if it's "The quick brown 
> fox
> jumps over the lazy dog." That includes all the Roman letters.
> 
> 
> THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG.
> 
> When I put that into Greek characters I get (transliterated):
> 
> THE QUICK BROWN FOX .UMPS O.ER THE LAZY DOG. All the Greek letters 
> are
> present here, while J and V are 25th and 26th letters.



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