[Foundation-l] Ancient Greek Wikipedia

[Christiano Moreschi]

Even so, you can still do things with Ancient Greek. I happen to own an Ancient Greek version of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. A Wikipedia for this language sounds quite fun, and not massively unreasonable.

CM

Odi profanum vulgus et arceo.

> Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:20:46 +0200
> From: valdelli at gmail.com
> To: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Ancient Greek Wikipedia
> 
> In your answer there is the answer.
> 
> "The Vatican, I believe, have invented a delightful Latin phrase for a 
> computer"
> 
> This happens because there is an organization which requires to 
> translate modern words because the Latin is a language still used.
> 
> Ilario
> 
> Christiano Moreschi wrote:
> > Very true. 
> >
> > As regards the necessity of using words from modern times that have no direct ancient Greek equivalents, it is always possible to use circumlocution. The Vatican, I believe, have invented a delightful Latin phrase for a computer. It's "instrumentum computatorium".
> >
> > I love it.
> >
> > CM
> >
> >
> >
> >   
> 
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