All you history fans are, I'm sure, familiar with the story of the Rosetta Stone. It was a stele containing an inscription in three ancient languages: Greek, Egyptian Hieroglyphics, (and I forget the third...maybe Latin?) In any event, the importance of the Rosetta Stone was that it finally allowed linguists to begin deciphering the mysterious hieroglyphs of the ancient Egyptians. So foundational was the Rosetta Stone to the history of linguistics, that it lends its name to the most popular line of language-learning software on the market today.
As I was reading through RFID in U.S. Libraries I could not shake the feeling that I was basically reading a Rosetta Stone. I didn't get a lot (and I mean, A LOT) of this 88 page exercise in verbosity and anagramic usage, but occasionally there would be a word or a sentence I understood. Now...if I could just find the English translation, I'd be in business.
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I have not gotten to this article yet. You really make me want to jump right to it though. Maybe I will go to Costco and get my own Rosetta Stone, maybe greek or latin, to help me with the reading. I wonder if they have the techno babble Rosetta Stone out yet?
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