Restless on the con floor

[baxil]

To expand on a comment I tweeted earlier about Pantheacon being an adjustment:

Every con has its flavor. Compared to scifi/regional/general cons, furry cons are a lot more hands-on and close-knit, because a much higher proportion of the fandom is creators and there's a much more DIY aesthetic than with fans of various flavors of traditional media.

Comments

[jenett]

It's Greek. My Greek is very rusty, but...

Ouk = not
gnosko = knowledge - I think this may be the verb, because it's not matching any declensions I can rustle up. If it is, it's first person. (I know, or in this case, I don't know.)
touto = 'these things' (either nominative or accusative singular: hard to tell from the transliteration, but I think accusative)
legei = he/she/it says (third person singular)

Accusative case means it's the object of the verb, the 'these things' is. The 'not' modifies the first part of the clause, and Greek conventionally puts the main verb at the end of the sentence, so to speak.

Thus, my best guess is something along the lines of "He/she/it says I know nothing." (do not know these things.)

I'm sort of unhappy about my theory about the declensions, but I can't see anything else that fits better.

[circuit_four]

I'll defer to you on this, since you have experience with Greek and I absolutely don't, but given the context... any chance it means something like "I know not what it says?"

[sashajwolf]

I think it's supposed to mean that, but has been written by someone who doesn't know Greek.

[circuit_four]

That sounds... very plausible. :)

[jenett]

Yeah. Because the verb form is very definitely third person singular. (First person would be lego - lamda epsilon gamma omega.)

[baxil]

Thanks! I am enlightened. 25 Baxil Points for your well-explained scholarship!

[jenett]

*preen*