(urth) This Week in Google Alerts: story with Gaiman

[Jeff Wilson]

On 2/19/2011 9:06 PM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
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> From: "Jeff Wilson" <jwilson at io.com>
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>> Isn't it fairly likely that some of the sundial mottoes are actually
>> Latin, though?
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> I don't think so. Most sundials we see today were made in modern times.
> They might have archaic mottoes put on them. Probably the same would be
> true of sundials in Severian's time.

That's what I mean; the Latin mottoes become traditional inscriptions 
for sundials and are copied (with errors creeping in) on new sundials in 
ages yet to come, like the Roman numerals on out contemporary clock 
faces, which often include both IIII and IX for extra anachroistic flavor.

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >