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Also "Sequoyah’s syllabary was not simply a creative triumph, but a new means of self-government and cultural memory"
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#14In case anyone is curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_syllabary
Amazing "By 1825, the majority of Cherokees could read and write in their newly developed orthography.[5]". It even has a reference so it must be true.
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I don't think this is AI, it doesn't sound like Claude.
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They're targeting something like a 5th grade reading level — I'm not convinced it's slop.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
What were the signs this is AI slop?
em dash and also "moving reminders of how a single individual’s brilliance and tenacity can change the world". It's such a lazy writing pattern
I read The Smithsonian Magazine decades ago. That kind of writing isn't new for them, IIRC.
Now, if you want to say that they wrote in the same annoyingly pretentious way that AIs often do, I could agree with that...
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#18The article’s title is misleading: “The Man Who Created a Written Language for the Cherokee Did It So Efficiently and Elegantly, His Peers Thought It Was Magic.”
His peers thought it was magic because they were unfamiliar with the concept of writing, not because his writing system was so efficient. He was put on trial for witchcraft because people thought he was communicating via magic. https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/sequoyah-a....
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#19>The syllabary was widely lauded, as its phonetic accuracy and simplicity made it far easier to grasp than English. I mean, that feels like it's bound to happen when an alphabet is built to represent current language or pronunciation. English is notoriously awful for not doing that.
English is three* languages in a trenchcoat, all languages borrow but English in particular is a cobbled together mess. Like a salors' pidgin language except instead of sailors, driven by the ruling class of Britain at the boundary of several language families who kept conquering each other.
*(or 7 or whatever number makes you feel best)
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#20>The syllabary was widely lauded, as its phonetic accuracy and simplicity made it far easier to grasp than English. I mean, that feels like it's bound to happen when an alphabet is built to represent current language or pronunciation. English is notoriously awful for not doing that.
There's an International Phonetic Alphabet for transcribing speech literally.[1]
Automation is now available. Languages to IPA, IPA to various languages, text to speech, speech to text, evaluation of pronunciation.
[1] https://easypronunciation.com/en/english-phonetic-transcript...