"A multilingual Unicode font (TTF, TrueType font) for ancient languages: classic & medieval Latin, ancient Greek, Old Italic (Etruscan, Oscan, Umbrian, Faliscan, Messapic, Picene), Gothic, Iberian, Celtiberian, old & middle English, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Runic, Ogham, Ugaritic, Anatolian scripts (Lydian, Lycian, Carian, Phrygian, Sidetic), Old Persian cuneiform, Coptic, Glagolitic, Phoenician, Old Cyrillic, Old Church Slavonic, Linear B, Brahmi, Kharosthi, Cypriot, Avestan, Ancient Greek  musical notation, Ancient Greek acrophonic numerals, New Testament editorial symbols, Ancient Greek papyrological numbers, Aegean numbers and old & medieval Nordic"

Dilige et quod vis fac

A member of the Maverick family coined the word 'gobbledegook'. Insert your own McCain/Palin joke here.

Wrong. Mic. (or mike), miking and miked.

Enter a long word, get a shorter synonym. You know, for Twitter.

The only people who use txt spk are old (as in over fifty).

Subs occasionally, er, desubjunctivise my sentences. It annoys me even more than the removal of semicolons.

Faintly amusing.

"An autistic woman "speaks" her language, then ours."

"What's the term (if there is one) for a previously-unfamiliar concept that you suddenly encounter all over the place for no apparent reason?"

Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo.

A splendid resource for pretentious wankers like myself.

Some of the examples are fascinating: I öa ä e å, o i åa ä e ö.

The lack of which in standard English being the reason for my inability to properly pronounce the word 'loch' without thinking about it first.

cf. the supposed impact of Brookside on Scouse.

Latin translation software. Windows only, sadly.

A lively young damsel named Menzies Inquired: "Do you know what this thenzies?" Her aunt, with a gasp, Replied: "It's a wasp, And you're holding the end where the stenzies.

Lovely word, new to me.

Strange business.

The story of Michael Ventris' cracking of Linear B. I'm downloading this just now and cannot fucking wait to watch it. (Note to self: get a Freeview receiver, pronto.)

"This paper describes a Perl module that makes it possible to write Perl programs in Latin." Fucking brilliant.

I have bad l'appelle d'vide, myself, and hygge is just lovely.

A conversation between a Russian translator and British author.

A group weblog on the art of translation.