The other day somebody asked me if I knew the Greek alphabet, and I realized I didn’t. I managed to get just five letters in — to ε — and then I got stuck, which is not very impressive.<\/p>\n
So I set about memorizing the whole thing, and it was surprisingly easy. For one thing, you can clearly see how our own alphabet is a variant, and that makes things loads easier.<\/p>\n
Entire runs of letters essentially look like ABCDE or KLMN or OPRSTU. Once you see that, you’re about 80% of the way to having the whole thing memorized.<\/p>\n
Also, there are only twenty four letters. I found myself learning it as six runs of four: First α, β, γ, δ, then ε, ζ, η, θ, all the up to the final φ, χ, ψ, ω.<\/p>\n
When you break it down like that, it goes very quickly. And that’s pretty much the alpha and the omega of the Greek alphabet.<\/p>\n
Now I want to memorize all of the elements in the periodic table. That might take a little longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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