{"id":4854,"date":"2011-05-26T18:27:03","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T02:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=4854"},"modified":"2011-05-26T19:02:51","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T03:02:51","slug":"%ce%bf%e1%bc%b4%ce%bc%ce%bf%ce%b9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=4854","title":{"rendered":"<span style=\"font-style: italic ;\">\u03bf\u1f34\u03bc\u03bf\u03b9<\/span>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greek seems to be in-fashion these days.  First, last night, a friend called me to ask how to say <span style=\"font-style: italic ;\">man who touches elephants<\/span> in Classical Greek.  Then, to-day, as I was attempting to comment to a &#39;blog earlier to-day, I was presented with the following &#39;bot challenge: <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/recaptcha.jpg\" alt=\"[detail of screen-capture in which a reCaptcha challenge presents a string containing the Hellenic psi]\" width=\"312\" height=\"123\" style=\"border: 0 ; display: block ; margin-top: 1em ; margin-bottom: 1em ; margin-left: auto ; margin-right: auto ;\" \/>  That's right, the string was <q><code>unadresG &psi;1,<\/code><code><\/code><\/q>, and that's a <span style=\"font-style: italic ;\">psi<\/span>, not a <q><code>w<\/code><code><\/code><\/q> nor a <q><code>u<\/code><code><\/code><\/q> with a slash through it.  Entering a <q><span style=\"font-style: italic ;\">&psi;<\/span><\/q> worked just fine. (Not that I actually have my keyboard configured to deliver <span style=\"font-style: italic ;\">psi<\/span>, but I keep Greek characters about, for copying-and-pasting.)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greek seems to be in-fashion these days. First, last night, a friend called me to ask how to say man who touches elephants in Classical Greek. Then, to-day, as I was attempting to comment to a &#39;blog earlier to-day, I was presented with the following &#39;bot challenge: That's right, the string was unadresG &psi;1,, and [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,69,4],"tags":[334,1020],"class_list":["post-4854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-information-technology","category-public","tag-everyday-absurdity","tag-greek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}