Medievalist and preservationist based in DC. Academic interests: the pedagogy of paleography, medieval Latin, and the history of grammar. Projects of the moment: an open-access Latin paleography textbook and a novel about nuns and archaeologists. More at https://ruffnotes.org/ .
Header image is Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek, Cod. Aug. perg. 171, fol. 1r. Cassiodorus, De septem artibus liberalibus. CC BY 4.0.
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VIRGLE for 9/30: https://mywordle.strivemath.com/?word=ystlom&lang=any&title=VIRGLE
VIRGLE is a six-letter Latin Wordle-style game using the vocabulary of the Aeneid. Words may be inflected or not and proper names are allowed. If you try it, let me know how it goes and whether you liked the picture hint!
VIRGLE 2-for-1, since I forgot to post the last two days.
VIRGLE for 9/29: https://mywordle.strivemath.com/?word=iotxwe&lang=any&title=VIRGLE
VIRGLE for 9/28 https://mywordle.strivemath.com/?word=qzclfw&lang=any&title=VIRGLE
VIRGLE is a six-letter Latin Wordle-style game using the vocabulary of the Aeneid. Words may be inflected or not and proper names are allowed. If you try it, let me know how it goes!
VIRGLE comes late in the day today. Here is the link for 9/27: https://mywordle.strivemath.com/?word=locolw&lang=any&title=VIRGLE
VIRGLE is a six-letter Latin Wordle-style game using the vocabulary of the Aeneid. Words may be inflected or not and proper names are allowed. If you try it, let me know how it goes and whether you liked the picture hint.
VIRGLE for 9/25: https://mywordle.strivemath.com/?word=atwxde&lang=any&title=VIRGLE
VIRGLE is a six-letter Latin Wordle-style game using the vocabulary of the Aeneid.
Words are taken from Frieze's dictionary of the Aeneid. Forms may be inflected and not necessarily in the form that appears in Virgil's text. Proper names ARE allowed.
NB: The game does not have access to a Latin dictionary, so it will not vet your guesses as latinum/non latinum.
This is manual; i.e., I have randomized the list of headwords automatically but am inflecting them (or not) myself and entering a new puzzle each time, which will have a fresh link each time. So watch for new links to be posted here, rather than going to the same link for a puzzle each time.
VIRGLE for 9/24: https://mywordle.strivemath.com/?word=wbyhws&lang=any&title=VIRGLE
VIRGLE is a six-letter Latin Wordle-style game using the vocabulary of the Aeneid.
Words are taken from Frieze's dictionary of the Aeneid. Forms may be inflected and not necessarily in the form that appears in Virgil's text. Proper names ARE allowed.
NB: The game does not have access to a Latin dictionary, so it will not vet your guesses as latinum/non latinum.
This is manual; i.e., I have randomized the list of headwords automatically but am inflecting them (or not) myself and entering a new puzzle each time, which will have a fresh link each time. So watch for new links to be posted here, rather than going to the same link for a puzzle each time.
Please boost/share, and if you give it a try, let me know how it goes!
VIRGLE for 9/23:
https://mywordle.strivemath.com/?word=zskhim&lang=any&title=VIRGLE
VIRGLE is a six-letter Latin Wordle-style game using the vocabulary of the Aeneid.
Words are taken from Frieze's dictionary of the Aeneid. Forms may be inflected and not necessarily in the form that appears in Virgil's text. Proper names ARE allowed.
NB: The game does not have access to a Latin dictionary, so it will not vet your guesses as latinum/non latinum.
This is manual; i.e., I have randomized the list of headwords automatically but am inflecting them (or not) myself and entering a new puzzle each time, which will have a fresh link each time. So watch for new links to be posted here, rather than going to the same link for a puzzle each time.
Please boost/share! Let me know how it goes and whether you liked the picture hint.
VIRGLE!
Are you a Latin Wordle fan? Have you been yearning for a game with just one more letter that would accommodate more inflections? I've been posting on Facebook a daily 6-letter Latin Wordle challenge using the vocabulary of the Aeneid and I thought I'd share it over here.
VIRGLE for September 22nd: https://mywordle.strivemath.com/?word=ocdqfw&lang=any&title=VIRGLE
Here are the parameters: I randomized the headwords in Frieze's dictionary of the Aeneid. I am going down that randomized list and picking a word of suitable length every day, which I may inflect or not. Proper names ARE allowed. I have generally been posting an image that contains some sort of hint with each day's puzzle.
NB: The Custom Wordle template does not have access to a Latin dictionary, so it will not vet your guesses as latinum/non latinum. And this is manual: the same link will not generate a new word every day; you will need to come back for a new link for each puzzle.
If you find this fun, please let me know and boost/share ad lib.
Website update: I was wondering where best to keep a list of all the projects I'm working on so I can remember what I planned to do when I get bored with one project and need to flit over to another for a while. I had "remember to write down the idea of..." notes cluttering my Reminders back to 2019.
And then it occurred to me: I have a website for that! Works in progress update, in approximate order of priority, is at https://ruffnotes.org/ .
Paleographic tooters, does anybody know what happened to the free paleographic fonts that used to be available at http://kps-fonts.ch/en_home.html ? Or who made them? I installed a lot of them but not all several years ago, the site is defunct, and I didn't save any other details.
