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Busby - Check it out now!

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What does that symbol mean?

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The Christmas Album

Pete Cafferata was an admirer of Yost’s talent as an artist, but he was not a fan of Geranium Lake Properties comics until nearly the end of GLP’s original run1. However, once his interest was caught, he became a GLP enthusiast. He was one of the original subscribers to Ha Kim Ngoc’s Usenet newsgroup, which later became her blog, which became her website, the late, lamented GLP Compendium.…

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Merry Christmas

Russian vintage postcard

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Ampersat is the @ symbol

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Plate LII in Coptic Apocrypha in the Dialect of Upper Egypt by Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge, showing a page of the Mysteries of St. John the Apostle.

Click here for the entire digitized book (and proof that I didn’t make up that name).

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1920-30 c. Some Art Deco-style lettering. From Art Deco, Avant Garde and Modernism, FB.

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Samsara Comics - “countless frustrations” Lin Tarczynski © lcmt 2015

“Hope abides; therefore I abide. Countless frustrations have not cowed me. I am still alive, vibrant with life. The black cloud will disappear, The morning sun will appear once again In all its supernal glory.”

Sri Cinmoy

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"Sunflower. The Culture and Selection Of It" by Yevgeniya Plachek, cover art by I. L. (1925)

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A Mandalorian keychain I ordered from the Jawa Trader in 1998.

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345-10_073 - Untitled - Ink & Water - (2010)

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When I decided to queue this post I thought it was asemic writing, but it's just messy handwriting, but then I went ahead anyway.

Sells books for 99¢. Nemfrog. 2019.

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I've known about this glyph for two decades or so, but for some reason I've never looked up what it meant. In my notes I call it "TIE Raptor" after the spacecraft it resembles.

TIL there’s a glyph (”¤“) that just means “some (unspecified) currency”

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I was trying to explain English spellings to our au pair this morning and got into talking about Chaucer and Wycliffe’s Bible and why the “gh” in “bought” is silent. Wycliffe’s Bible - it turns out (thank you Wikipedia) -is in part the work of John Purvey, who wrote this unimprovable summary of a translator’s duties:

“Firstly, the translator must be sure of the text he is translating. This he has done by comparing many old copies of the Latin bible to assure authenticity of the text.

"Secondly, the translator must study the text in order to understand the meaning. Purvey explains that one cannot translate a text without having a grasp of what is being read.

"Third, the translator must consult grammar, diction, and reference works to understand rare and unfamiliar words.

"Fourth, once the translator understands the text, translation begins by not giving a literal interpretation but expressing the meaning of the text in the receptor language (English), not just translating the word but the sentence as well.”

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