Greek text

[Darth Cid]

My theory and Christmas' theory are still the best ones in my opinion.

[Meat Puppet]

[Q=Serapy]They are daughters of someone, then?[/Q]
As with all women

[Loony BoB]

It's designed to make the many cultures of the game's world look different. It doesn't really work all that well, but that's the point of it. It's not meant to say anything.

[Breine]

Wait, scrumpleberry knows greek? cooooooool.


Anyway, it's probably just a coincidence. Someone at Square might have thought that greek letters looked bitchin', and decided to put them there for decorative reasons.

[Moon Rabbits]

[Q=Serapy]They are daughters of someone, then?[/Q]
As with all women

Hahahahaha I actually lol'd so hard. Baziiiiiiing~

Anyway, I love that every FFVIII theory thread now involves periods.

[Ryushikaze]

...Assuming, for the moment, it's not pure dummy text, why must it have great meaning?

Why put at a deep and meaningful phrase atop a broadcast tower?

It's an ID code, if anything.

[Christmas]

I think it sounds entirely plausible that they used Greek letters just so they wouldn't have to come up with anything meaningful to type. Meaningless decoration, like Squall's redundant belts.

Squall's belts aren't redundant! They are for special "games" in the bedroom!

[MJN SEIFER]

It's all greek to me...

[Momiji]

I just decoded it!

It says:
"BE SURE TO DRINK YOUR OVALTINE"

A crummy commercial? Son of a bitch.

You guys don't get it! SquareSoft's put four Greek characters on a thing that's almost the same as a true Greek word except a few mistakes. The point is that the two versions are almost accurate enough to be identical to each other! It's either that it's just a coincidence or SquareSoft being so lucky when they pick random characters from something.

And, the translation of the word happens to be relevant, which is anothing thing to consider here.

It's a coincidence if anything, put in the game to add to the atmosphere. Do you listen to music backwards and try to hear secret messages too?

It's all greek to me...

Instant Rimshot

[Darth Cid]

It's a coincidence if anything, put in the game to add to the atmosphere. Do you listen to music backwards and try to hear secret messages too?

Sometimes that works I hear "He's listening!" when I play Living In The City from Sonic R backwards.[/joke]

[BG-57]

Well since in media the Japanese often use meaningless English and westerners often use meaningless kanji, why not Greek too?

[Serapy]

Do you listen to music backwards and try to hear secret messages too?

How many times do I have to tell you people. I cannot hear or speak in reality. So, perceiving secret messages from any music is absolutely useless to me.

I've said this on this forum about three times already. Way to be rude, Momiji.

[Momiji]

Right, considering that I've read every last one of your posts.

[Serapy]

That's it? Nice manners you have there!

[BG-57]

Do you use Dual Shock then? I find it handy when I have to turn the volume down.

As for the text itself, it's meaningless except as an aesthetic statement.