I hereby decree…<\/p>\n
Stop using sigmas as Es!<\/b><\/p>\n
How often do we see this shit?<\/p>\n
GR\u03a3\u03a3K<\/b><\/p>\n
Oh, isn’t that clever? Instead of the letter E they use a sigma (\u03a3) which totally looks like an E and is totally Greek! LOLOLOL<\/p>\n
Just one problem. The Greek letter sigma is not an E. It’s an S. So what is spelled up there is basically “Grssk”.<\/p>\n
But hey, I can see your predicament. You want to pretend you’re all smart and making something look Greek in a very half-alpha-sigma-sigma’d way and it’s not like the Greek equivalent to the letter E looks all that much like the Roman E…<\/p>\n
Oh wait, this is an epsilon: \u0395<\/b><\/p>\n
*facepalm*<\/p>\n
But is that too identical to an E for you? Here’s a lowercase epsilon: \u03b5<\/b><\/p>\n
And here’s what you were trying to spell: Gr\u03b5\u03b5k<\/b><\/p>\n
True, by Greek phonetics and whatnot that still isn’t technically correct but at the very least you’re matching up the correct letters!<\/p>\n
And speaking of Greek letter gripes, can people quit using a lowercase U when writing the metric denomination “micro”? For example, when they say 1ug (1 microgram)? It’s not a U. It’s supposed to be 1\u00b5g. That’s not a lowercase U. That’s a lowercase mu.<\/p>\n
Seriously, I told this to this cow I’m friends with for some reason, and she agrees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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