- Author
- Brian Suda (optional.is)
- Published
- 3 December 02009
- Kind
- Personal blog post about a T-shirt project
- Original
- optional.is/required/2009/12/03/welcome-the-entire-land/
- Subject
- Saved posts
- Themes
- Saying it exactly
What it is
A blog post on optional.is, with copyright credited to Brian Suda. The author describes a trip to a web conference in Brighton. A passing remark there led to the shirt idea.
What it says
- The author says a friend praised a museum sign's hieroglyph translation. That sparked the idea.
- The author wanted a T-shirt saying "Hello World" in hieroglyphics.
- The author says Egyptologists returned "Welcome, the entire land" as the translation. The author had said an equivalent saying was acceptable.
- The author lists the glyphs pictorially. The result reads left to right, top to bottom.
- The author printed the shirt. The design is released to the public domain.
What evidence it gives
The evidence is the author's own account and a list of glyph descriptions. The translators are credited only in a thanks note. Nothing about the translation is shown beyond the post.
Interests and limits
The page text was read in full. The hieroglyph image and downloadable file were not viewed. The translation was not checked independently. The author calls the project a folly. The claim that the phrase is new is the author's own.