At The Urban Legend Institute, WordPlay Cincy’s store,
I’ve added a couple of refurbished typewriters, complete with urban legends
that may or may not be true …
Typewriters telling tales
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Rhett, the Royal KH, looks amazingly clean and slick! Whoever gets to own it is lucky.
The Underwood is a pearl. Does Rhett get to write, "Frankly, my dear …"?
Pearl – Fact.
Royals never give a damn?
I take it that the Royal has come to 'Kleen zie pooooool'. (cue funky music).
Mmmm…. Rhett Royal is indeed a great porn name, to go with that mo.
….. Not that I would ever watch such stuff.
The Underwood serves beautifully in illustrating what a drop-dead gorgeous typewriter the Royal is – from any angle. Fiction both. The alphabet they use in Russia is called Cyrillic – but you knew that :-)
Yes, I'm afraid Pearl is a bit of an ugly duckling.
Her story is true, though.
The Greek letters that Pearl (and any Roman-alphabet typewriter) can write are:
ETYIOPAHKZXBNM
(Transliterated back into Roman, that's etyiora?kzchbnm)
The Russian letters that Pearl can write are:
ETOPAHKXCBM
(Transliterated back into Roman, that's etorankkhsvm)
There are different variants of Cyrillic; I specified Russian because Ukrainian Cyrillic includes the letter I, while Russian does not.
Now I want to know how many Greek and Russian words can be crafted with the letters on a standard Roman alphabet typewriter.
Good question. My Russian is basically nonexistent. I know some Greek and can see that some words can be formed, for instance NIKH = nik? = victory, or MANIA = mania = madness.