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Eh? tsuredzuregusa kR
blades of grass upon the wind Well, my computer won't let me read Japanese; at least not set up the way it is. The characters show in my typing window, but not in the post. 
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So, I've figured out goacu and guacu (although precisely what Greek letters they refer to is beyond me) but what the behoove is fsigma???
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Faldo, they seem to refer not just to letters, but to diacritics.
so Gk. kaustiks is rendered as {kappa}{alpha}{upsilon}{sigma}{tau}{iota}{kappa}{goacu}{fsigma}
[fsigma <> the dark and mysterious "final sigma"]
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The form of the Greek alphabet usually used for classical texts has two forms for sigma. If I could remember how, I would show you here, but I'll just describe them: the one used at the beginning or in the middle of words looks like an o with a tail going off to the right at the top, while the one used at the end of words looks like our s, but longer going down below the line.
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