Google makes yearbook signing harder.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Sometimes I get really annoyed with Google. This time of year is one of them. It’s the end of the school year, and students bring me their yearbooks to sign, which I am glad to do. In Latin. This serves many purposes: it makes them continue to learn after they have left my class, it makes my trite expressions sound more important, it annoys the snot out of the students, and it allows me to be a pompous ass with little effort. :smiley:

But since the advent of Google, there is no more mystery. the kids have their phones out and have Googled the Latin before I get done signing the next book. Now they know I’m being trite and superficial when I sign!

Time to switch to Greek or Russian - something with a different character set that is a bit more Google resistant.

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How about just putting everything in the form of a rebus?

3

A simple substitution cypher, but they’d have to combine samples to get enough data to crack it.

4

Just pull quotes from the Voynich Manuscript.

5

Yeah, but reproducing the font is a bitch.

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I’m liking the rebus idea, but how do you draw “Lex clavatoris designati rescindenda est?” :smiley:

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Do a combination Latin/Pig Latin, ala the above Silenus quote:

“exlay vatorisclay signatidey cindendaresay tesay”