yes! My phone doesn't want to display special characters, I'm working off http://www.maryjones.us/ctexts/h23w.html … and it shows up w a box
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Replying to @NeolithicSheep @civilwarbore
so apparently it's related to the word eillio which means shave, because slaves were shaven? IDK I found a jstor article.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @civilwarbore
seems like a disputed etymology, but yeah it means slaves.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @civilwarbore
also paleography is totally my jam, glad i can use it haha.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
I suspect I'd do better if I weren't on my phone. Hard for me to see skinny diagonals so it looks like a lot of i, j, and I.
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Replying to @NeolithicSheep @AdmiralHip
Really the goal here is to turn myself into a peculiar version of Miss Giddy from Fury Road but with better calligraphy.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
the trick is finding texts worthy of being put on my skin!
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Replying to @NeolithicSheep @civilwarbore
v. true
10:38 PM - 15 May 2016
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