I keep wondering about the slate of games offered as part of the Humble Bundles. Both of the previous bundles have included a really good "headline" game (World of Goo and Braid), and a bunch of games which to my eyes vary between clever but very light (Osmos), of limited appeal (Machinarium), just plain unimpressive (Gish, Lugaru), and simply unfinished (the still-incomplete Cortex Command, the beta Revenge of the Titans, and this "prototype" Jack Claw). Plus a few I'm simply uninterested in. I'm sure the other games have their fans, and I'm not saying they're bad -- just not especially high-caliber, and generally not something I'd pay more than a couple bucks even if they weren't part of the bundle. Can Wolfire not find more developers to take part, or is this the best available slate of indie-cross-platform games?

(I've bought both of the previous bundles and will buy the third. I'm just disappointed that a) I don't have much money to contribute and b) what's on offer isn't really worth much more to me).

All true, to be sure. I've had a look at Modern Greek, yes; I can sometimes make out the gist of the old Katharevousa dialect but not Demotic, which yields no more than a few familiar roots to my inspection. While there are a fair few common roots, the grammar has undergone massive changes since Aristotle, to the extent that the Attic and Demotic dialects are probably less mutually intelligible than, say, Italian and Spanish.

I think that's correct. It's a Greek paradigm although the original name is presumably Lydian. Woodhouse has it as Guges, -ou, ho, which ought to make the accusative Gugen. The TLG agrees. (Slashdot's dropping the Greek characters for some reason, but the 'e's are both etas).

I'm two weeks away from a master's degree in Ancient Greek. I'm not sure I'd pass the Greek portion of the exam. Why? Because it focuses on extremely rigorous memorization of obscure details (and I'm talking obscure details of an arcane dead language, mind you). I can read even difficult Greek pretty well, but that doesn't mean I can decline 'trirs' (a noun in a highly unusual declension), or form the correctly-accented participles of 'histmi', or decline much of anything in the unusual dual number, off the top of my head and without consulting a grammar. Nor, I think, could most of my colleagues. The translation *into* Greek, however, is quite easy. It's a hard test for college freshmen, to be sure, but it's also testing based on a very different sort of educational objective. Passing the Greek section requires more memorization than actual competence in the language.