GIP - Latin geekery

[amedia]

I'm not into a lot of HP fanac (I love the books, just don't feel an inclination to write) but a good number of my flist are - keikokin, gblvr, pocketwitch, and littlewings04 come to mind offhand, and I'm sure there are others - and I wanted an icon to use when chatting HP with them. Plus I am very very tickled to have gotten myself a copy of Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis. Hence, a new icon!

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[littlewings04.livejournal.com]

You got it? Awesome! Me, personally, I'm gunning after a copy of one of the books in Hebrew next. Got to practice modern Hebrew somehow...

[amedia.livejournal.com]

::jealousjealous::

A student asked me a question in Latin class the other day about whether the Greek word abax (abacus) came from the Hebrew word for sand, a rumor he'd heard (the earliest abacus in the Greco-Roman world seems to have used lines traced in sand). We even have a Hebrew-English dictionary at home, but it doesn't have the words transliterated; I looked up the word for sand and saw... unintelligible gibberish. I felt very, very ignorant. :-(

[maubast.livejournal.com]

I love the new icon. *hugs*