PSA + pop quiz

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PSA

bowdlerized is someone whom many of you know and love. I am sure none of you would ever want to cause her harm. Therefore, it pains me to report that she is suffering from a brand of persecution I know all too well: Rampant misspelling of her LJ name.

"Bowdlerized" means "expurgated", and is an eponym of Thomas Bowdler, expurgator extraordinaire. The word should not be spelled in any other fashion, as there has never been any such person as Tohmas Bowlder.

To repeat:

B O W D L E R I Z E D

Now none of you has any excuse. Any further offenses will be punishable by spanking. Or withheld spankings, as the case may warrant.

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Pop Quiz

I'm curious about something. Please fill out this poll with your current impression of what the answers are. DO NOT look up the answers first. That's not the point. I want to know what you THINK is true.

This will be skewed, since there are a lot of academics and linguistics geeks on my flist, but eh.

[Poll #388778]

Comments

[paz-.livejournal.com]

I was in doubt about the Egyptian hieroglyphs, but I chose yes anyway. I know the Mayan hieroglyphs have been deciphered because just yesterday a friend told me about this conference he went to in which they spoke of the meanings of these hieroglyphs (something about the 'end of the world', as people usually refer to it, being on December of 2012).

I have no clue what the Phaistos Disk is either, but now that I've taken the poll, I'll do some research.