Is Dibrom's signature in violation of TOS#10?

This is obviously just a joke and intended only as an excuse to my curiosity to know what his signature means (in some type of greek characters).

Uh-oh... if we start applying #10 to sigs, I'm in trouble too...

Sigs are a bit of an exception, I'd imagine.

Yep...TOS#10 states, "A non-English post is anti-social..."

Anti-social sigs are OK.

Now, whether it complies with TOS#11 depends on the translation...

"It is not allowed to have a signature longer than a few lines. Signatures may not link to offensive sites or have offensive content. Formatting is disabled."

It may also violate #8. I mean: Dibrom, could you fix this equation (where's the "=" sign, anyway?) and prove it?

Hehe! Dibrom's signature is in ancient greeks and I am from greece but I can't really help you. I don't know anything about ancient greeks.

What the bleedin' hell does it mean anyway?

Here's a clue :
http://perseus.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/cgi-bin...lat.+Soph.+244a

Well... you *could* regard a signature as a part of the post...

I could be in trouble, too...

Doubt it. I don't speak a word of spanish, but I can easily understand what your signature means

Are you acquainted with the work from which this was indirectly quoted?

Think continental philosophy and phenomenology

It's best if I don't say anything. English rocks!

















Kind of.


Okay, not really, but it's really popular. Like MP3, it sounds terrible, is not very efficient, but damn if it isn't the group choice.

You are probably aluding to Heidegger's "Platon: Sophistes". But no, I'm not familiar with it.

My interest was kindled by the greek text (which was hard to read for me without proper unicode support and with my vanishing language skills ).

Close, but not quite. It's a quote from Heidegger's Sein und Zeit (Being and Time), which is a quote from Plato. To understand the quote in context, you'd have to read the work itself though

Well, if you ask me, IMHO it really does. It IS in fact quite efficient and versatile as a language compared to the others I know and probably to others I don't know as well (Chinese, perhaps?). While it may not be very "musical" or "melodious" in the way it sounds, I think it is a matter of personal taste if you like the sound or not. Personally, I really like how it sounds spoken with a British accent (well, not all British accents).

Yes, english is by all means a great language. Although the rules are somewhat complicated if you go in-depth, and the vocabulary seems to have gotten somewhat out of control over the years... the biggest problem though is that there's no real "standardization"... each region seems to be evolving its own variant of the language... that can become problematic for something that's suppose to be the de facto world language. I'd let the english in control, but I suppose the americans / indians / australians etc. would disagree

I btw agree on british english sounding like the best variant of spoken english (for me personally...). I really don't like the way americans speak, it reminds me of "farmers-speak"... no offence americans On the other hand I happen to know my girlfriend prefers american, finding british "too stiff" hehe

PS: english is not my native language. I'm skandinavian And for anyone wondering, the scandinavian languages are as different from english as english is from german.

How 'bout the way they type? <--- farmer speak version 2.0.164

Thanks for effectively confusing me--and reminding me to get back to work. I'm at Tufts, which is partially responsible(greg crane gets the credit I think) for the Perseus Project, so I couldn't figure out for a good 30 secs how I got from HA to last semester's homework-I was betting on some kind of divine signal until i actually checked the link.
Dibrom-stop being multitalented, it makes us LA people feel dumb when people who can do long division can quote stuff too.