# Symbol font now available. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 2, 2001, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/symbol-font-now-available/85016 "2001-10-02T18:38:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2001, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/symbol-font-now-available/85016/81 "2001-11-09T22:16:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by matt\_mcl \* > \*\*[sym]Pantw kinhsai petron > > De troqenta eidwmen iaqenta eggkefalon[/sym] (hope I’ve got that right!) \*\* The first sentence mentions “all”, “rocks”, and a word whose root denotes movement. [sym]eidwmen[/sym] means “we see”, and as was pointed out, [sym]eggkefalon[/sym] means head. Beyond that, I’m lost. It’s been too long since I took Greek. ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2001, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/symbol-font-now-available/85016/82 "2001-11-09T23:39:47Z")
Here’s my chance to practice posting Symbol font blind. Let me know how I did. [Sym]kinhsai[/Sym] - probably Aorist active infinitive of [Sym]kinew[/Sym] - “to have set into motion”. [Sym]petron[/Sym] - accusative of [Sym]petros[/Sym] - a stone. Got it. [Sym]eidwmen[/Sym] - 2nd Perfect Active Subjunctive 1pp of [Sym]oida[/Sym] - “we might know”? [Sym]egkephalon[/Sym] - accusative of [Sym]egkephalos[/Sym], brain. Note, though, that it has only one [Sym]g[/Sym]. Remember that the [Sym]g[/Sym] sounds like a [Sym]v[/Sym] before a [Sym]k[/Sym] as well as another [Sym]g[/Sym]. I can’t identify [Sym]Pantw[/Sym] - it’s no form of [Sym]paV, pasa, pan[/Sym] that I’m familiar with. It looks like it should be the straight form of a verb, though. [Sym]troqenta[/Sym] has me stumped. [Sym]iaqenta[/Sym] might be some form of [Sym]iaomai[/Sym] (heal), maybe? My translation: I do something to have moved a stone. But something that we might know something brain. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2001, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/symbol-font-now-available/85016/83 "2001-11-10T02:32:26Z")
Maybe "I tossed a stone into the air It made a hole beneath my hair … " Now I can’t think But where I drink People with rocks for brains ain’t rare (That’s an original composition, BTW. Thank you, I’ll be here all night!) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2003, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/symbol-font-now-available/85016/84 "2003-05-26T21:50:56Z")
So when did this stuff get turned off? ---
**Author:** ![ragerdude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d07c76/32.png) [@ragerdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ragerdude)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2003, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/symbol-font-now-available/85016/85 "2003-05-26T23:34:14Z")
[sym]Does this work?[/sym] [font face=“symbol”]Does this work?[/font] Did they turn it off? Does it expire? ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/symbol-font-now-available/85016/86 "2003-05-27T00:32:09Z")
[symbol]W[/symbol] It looks like you have to type out “symbol” instead of just “sym” now. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/symbol-font-now-available/85016/87 "2003-05-27T02:04:31Z")
[sym]Zappa[/sym] ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/symbol-font-now-available/85016/88 "2003-05-27T02:21:47Z")
[symbol]Zappa[/symbol] ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/symbol-font-now-available/85016/89 "2003-05-27T10:31:23Z")
[symb**ol]ABCDEF[/symbol] = [symbol]ABCDEF[/symbol] [fon**t=“symbol”]ABCDEF[/font] = ABCDEF The [Sym] tag changed to [symbol] when the board software was last upgraded. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/symbol-font-now-available/85016/90 "2003-05-27T10:41:43Z")
[symbol]Mellie rules.[/symbol] Cool! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/symbol-font-now-available/85016/91 "2003-05-27T14:24:35Z")
Could we maybe have [sym][/sym] reactivated, so that this thread makes sense? ---
**Author:** ![ragerdude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d07c76/32.png) [@ragerdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ragerdude)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/symbol-font-now-available/85016/92 "2003-05-27T14:39:14Z")
does this work? [symbol]does this work?[/symbol] [sym]does this work?[/sym] ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/symbol-font-now-available/85016/93 "2003-05-27T15:20:39Z")
[symbol]Ah… Now it all makes sense. I was wondering if I didn’t have the font set or something and I have over 2000 fonts on my computer. [/symbol] ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/symbol-font-now-available/85016/94 "2003-05-28T01:10:51Z")
[symbol]I guess you’re right[/symbol] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/symbol-font-now-available/85016.md?page=4)