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John Hill Date: Thu Dec 3, 1998 6:00 pm Subject: Re: your mail | ||||||||
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Well, Val... Ya know, I was thinking, maybe that story is telling us something... Maybe the solution to all this resistance to the SignWriting is because we haven't put YOU on trial as a witch! Maybe all inventers of writing systems are actually witchs. YOu could use the opportunity to charm the socks off those juriors and everything will be just terrific! LOL John On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Lourdes Tollette wrote: > Val, > > The invention of SignWriting is at times compared to the invention of the written alphabet for the Cherokee Indian language. The Cherokee Indian chief Sequoyah, who invented the written form for his native spoken language, was also surrounded by controversy for 25 years. His own people burned his books and threatened is life. They actually put him on trial for being a witch, but then he taught the jurors at the trial how to read and write (I am not kidding, that is the story!) and they decided it was pretty terrific!! So instead of executing him, they decided to use Sequoyah's alphabet, and now the Cherokee Indi an language is preserved for future generations. > > Interesting, I didn't know about this. And I believe you.. you are no kidding.. Smile! > > Lourdes > | ||||||||
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