[quote=andi;1815293]Why in the world would anybody transcribe a classic Greek sigma into English as a Z? o.O
Do you... even know ancient Greek, sir? o.o In which case, why are you talking about something as if you know anything about it - read: the equivalent of me pretending that my blood magically carried the power to let me translate and perfectly understandstand such beautiful and ancient works as the
Charter of Cnut. :O[/
Well I am talking as though I know about it because I do know about it...
To ignore this knowledge is akin to Kroesus ignoring the oracles at the start of the Histories: When a mule sits on the Median throne run then tender footed lydian along pebbly hermus flee then and do not fear to be a coward - Kroesus disregards this oracle - at his cost, you are like Kroesus - you seized on a minor mistake concerning the title of a play, and jump to the obvious conclusion Kroesus assumed that a mule could never be king but you assume I have no knowledge of Greek. In both the assumption was wrong