"hydpographica"
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2018 4:29 pm
https://dl.dropbox.com/s/qp9u28zt8neigeu/hydpo.jpg
Saw this in a bathroom. I don't know if there's anything to be made of it ... I've always wondered if there were times when words were loaned by letterform instead of by sound. I havent been able to find even a single example of that in English, though in other langs sometimes Roman alphabet names are loaned in with Roman script instead of transliterating it. Is this just a simple scribal error? why was it not caught and fixed ~400 years ago?
another potential example is the name Remphan, which Wikipedia describes as being a loan from the Hebrew name Chiun ... if there is a connection at all, it presumably has to do with the letter shapes since /x/ and Greek /r/ do not sound alike. The Hebrew name seems to begin with an "h" letter and not the qoph. Coptic is ⲣⲏⲫⲁⲛ .
Saw this in a bathroom. I don't know if there's anything to be made of it ... I've always wondered if there were times when words were loaned by letterform instead of by sound. I havent been able to find even a single example of that in English, though in other langs sometimes Roman alphabet names are loaned in with Roman script instead of transliterating it. Is this just a simple scribal error? why was it not caught and fixed ~400 years ago?
another potential example is the name Remphan, which Wikipedia describes as being a loan from the Hebrew name Chiun ... if there is a connection at all, it presumably has to do with the letter shapes since /x/ and Greek /r/ do not sound alike. The Hebrew name seems to begin with an "h" letter and not the qoph. Coptic is ⲣⲏⲫⲁⲛ .