I am feverish in bed post-vaccine, please tell me a cool fact about something
@ian OK, I’ll chime in:
Most writing systems either evolve over generations, or are created by expert linguists.
But Cherokee’s was invented by one person, Sequoyah, who not only was not a linguist, but never went to school and never learned to read or write.
He saw English-language books, and despite not speaking English, understood the general principle, and thought, “I can do that for my language!”
He spent 12 years developing his writing system, and it is still the standard today.
@inthehands @ian rumored to be one of my mom’s ancestors.
Could be …he did father a lot of children in his wandering
Inherited this from her when she died
@MishaVanMollusq @ian Oh, cool! There certainly are worse things to have in one’s family history!
@inthehands @ian unconfirmed .
If not a genetic ancestor then defintely one of spirit
@MishaVanMollusq @ian
Well, a beautiful thing about family lore is that the telling is at least half of what matters, and things don’t need to meet academic standards of rigorous historical verification to become a part of the family fabric.
@inthehands @ian this came up when she was doing the family genealogies, and the clue was from a local member of AIM
@MishaVanMollusq @ian Well see already your family history is badass
@inthehands @ian Pirates and Methodist Circuit riders on pop’s side .
He’s not Cherokee by a long shot