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quislibetI'm working on editing a book review where I have to retype all of the extensive Greek quotations, as Greek fonts tend to vary widely with their encoding, so that I'm looking at a page full of stuff that looks like this, which I understand may not look too different from what it's supposed to be if you don't know Greek, but anyway:
o∏ÙÔÓ ï ÙÂÖ¯Ô˜ ÙÔ˘ ñ„ËÏfi˜
Sadly, it's not just a case of selecting the text and putting it in the right font.
So I'm trying to retype all this, and it's particularly vexing that the same Greek words will appear several times in different inflections and/or with variant Byzantine spellings within two lines, so I need to play close attention to where in the line I am.
But I'm having trouble, quite apart from the constant interruptions from the boss ("Sorry to bother you again, but is this year-old correspondence I discovered while looking for something else still important?"), because, after reading through various online news stories, I want to go out and take stupid people on both sides of war and war-related issues and shake them until their heads fall off. For instance, "You! Let the damn German students come to your high school!" -- "And you! Stop calling Bush Hitler!" [no one link will suffice], just to single out two things I think most people, whatever they feel about the war, will find equally tedious.
-- Oh, and there are other various things that do not, in fact, involve Germany in any way; that wasn't intentional (*). But if I start going on about everything that has me all in a tizzy then I'll be all incoherent with rage and, what's more, I won't get any work done.
Meanwhile, the day of my prospectus defense draws nearer (now officially one week, one hour, and forty minutes from this moment). Now that it has been so moved it's a bit inconvenient that I'm going a "Walk for Hunger" for most of the day before, especially as I have, so far, not managed to raise any money for it whatsoever.
Oh. Word just "quit unexpectedly," and I wasn't even working in it. I hope I saved before I started to write this update, or else I'll have to re-retype some Greek, and that would vex.
I think I'll post this, restart this damn machine, and go get some lunch while it goes through its insultingly lengthy startup process. I would proudly eat French Fries if they weren't Burger King's.
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(*) I don't think there's any connection between my examples and the fact that the review I'm editing is (except for the parts in Greek) in German, and that my sometimes pesky boss is from Germany.
o∏ÙÔÓ ï ÙÂÖ¯Ô˜ ÙÔ˘ ñ„ËÏfi˜
Sadly, it's not just a case of selecting the text and putting it in the right font.
So I'm trying to retype all this, and it's particularly vexing that the same Greek words will appear several times in different inflections and/or with variant Byzantine spellings within two lines, so I need to play close attention to where in the line I am.
But I'm having trouble, quite apart from the constant interruptions from the boss ("Sorry to bother you again, but is this year-old correspondence I discovered while looking for something else still important?"), because, after reading through various online news stories, I want to go out and take stupid people on both sides of war and war-related issues and shake them until their heads fall off. For instance, "You! Let the damn German students come to your high school!" -- "And you! Stop calling Bush Hitler!" [no one link will suffice], just to single out two things I think most people, whatever they feel about the war, will find equally tedious.
-- Oh, and there are other various things that do not, in fact, involve Germany in any way; that wasn't intentional (*). But if I start going on about everything that has me all in a tizzy then I'll be all incoherent with rage and, what's more, I won't get any work done.
Meanwhile, the day of my prospectus defense draws nearer (now officially one week, one hour, and forty minutes from this moment). Now that it has been so moved it's a bit inconvenient that I'm going a "Walk for Hunger" for most of the day before, especially as I have, so far, not managed to raise any money for it whatsoever.
Oh. Word just "quit unexpectedly," and I wasn't even working in it. I hope I saved before I started to write this update, or else I'll have to re-retype some Greek, and that would vex.
I think I'll post this, restart this damn machine, and go get some lunch while it goes through its insultingly lengthy startup process. I would proudly eat French Fries if they weren't Burger King's.
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(*) I don't think there's any connection between my examples and the fact that the review I'm editing is (except for the parts in Greek) in German, and that my sometimes pesky boss is from Germany.
