DNSISNT SFOORT

[jlapoutre@mastodon.online]

@Elizafox Tried my best reverse image search-fu (which isn't great) and only found this Reddit thread. No mention about its origin alas

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[libroraptor@mastodon.nz]

@PsyChuan @Elizafox Hellenistic Egypt?

[iju@mastodon.social]

@Elizafox @PsyChuan

Sure, but Egypt as a polity was 3000 years old when Ptolemy's line ruled it. So if Ptolemy's time was ancient, what were the 3000 previous years?

That being said, would be nice to take a photo from Victorian Britain and title it with cyrillic alphabet as "l'ancienne Angleterre".

[tk@f.kawa-kun.com]

@jlapoutre @Elizafox Sounds toddler level.

[snoopj@hachyderm.io]

@Elizafox @Daveography reminds me of the classic "msmsptth mthrf" tattoo

[tk@f.kawa-kun.com]

@Elizafox Do you have any favorite Cyrillic abominations like this?

[dragonfrog@mastodon.sdf.org]

@Elizafox apparently it's always been DNS for longer than I thought

[elizafox@social.treehouse.systems]

@tk I do. I posted one the other day I think.

[elizafox@social.treehouse.systems]

@tk https://social.treehouse.systems/@Elizafox/116337985070019180 ah here

[mjj@mstdn.dk]

@Elizafox TOYSYAUS

[kaffeehaeferl@wien.rocks]

@SnoopJ @Elizafox @Daveography a latin professor at uni once showed us this. vspph, vphdph, vphcph, as julius cesar famously said

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@Elizafox plus the mix of lunate sigma and classical sigma just to maximize the grating experience to those that know the alphabet.

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@SnoopJ @Elizafox @Daveography I'm laughing so hard right now 8-D

[b_age@troet.cafe]

@Elizafox ouch

[libroraptor@mastodon.nz]

@oblomov @SnoopJ @Elizafox @Daveography That's a Latin 'rum', I believe. msmsptth mthrumph.

[corax42@mastodon.social]

@SnoopJ

The best part is how they messed up the Rho and fixed it by striking through the leg of the R

@Elizafox @Daveography

[nholzschuch@piaille.fr]

@Elizafox @krazykitty seen just outside Paris: Dtsj Taguesnatsj Jotskoï et Iakossoïski

[sobtanian@mstdn.games]

@kaffeehaeferl @SnoopJ @Elizafox @Daveography @Illuminatus

Slightly related: we see this in Arabic all the time. It mostly comes from the fact that the people making the tattoos can read the Arabic alphabet but don’t understand what it means, or how to join the letters.

The worst offenders are Arabic letters not joined up and written left to right

[pmjv@snac.lab8.cz]

jesus christ

CC: @Elizafox@treehouse.systems @Daveography@yeg.bike

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@kaffeehaeferl @SnoopJ @Elizafox @Daveography vphsph (lunate sigma)