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Left-handed for those that need clarification. :)
I am related to a left-hander who hates being a synonym for evildoing, so now it sticks out to me when people use it that way :p
This looks like the same text on the Voynich Manuscript [0] — only without the illustrations. [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript
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Nice, Tai Le looks really close! I first thought it might be Deseret Cursive [1], but I don't think that's it either. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deseret_alphabet
Whoa I grew up Mormon and have never once heard of this script. Super interesting. There is so much Church history that they don’t teach because it’s weird in contemporary light, and this is a great example of that.
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Whoa I grew up Mormon and have never once heard of this script. Super interesting. There is so much Church history that they don’t teach because it’s weird in contemporary light, and this is a great example of that.
There is a ton of info about the church that isn't widely known in Mormon circles. The CES letter does a good job covering tons of it https://www.cesletter.org
(11:38 GMT) I'm filing a guess of a tourist copy of the stories of Amir Hamzah, in early 20th century handwritten Javanese. I believe the image needs to be rotated/flipped so the hole in the paper is in the top left quadrant. Will post a reference when I settle on one.
Indeed, it looks similar: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stories_of_Amir_Hamz...
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I am related to a left-hander who hates being a synonym for evildoing, so now it sticks out to me when people use it that way :p
...when do people use it that way? "Sinister" in English has just the one meaning; the sense of "left" is restricted to Latin. And even there, "left" is a pretty different concept from "left-handed". On a different note, French for left is "gauche".
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...when do people use it that way? "Sinister" in English has just the one meaning; the sense of "left" is restricted to Latin. And even there, "left" is a pretty different concept from "left-handed". On a different note, French for left is "gauche".
A few different English dictionaries include "on the left" as a current definition for sinister. From American Heritage Dictionary 4th Ed. (En-En) > sinister > sin·is·ter (sĭnʹĭ-stər) > adj. > 4. On the left side; left. > From Merriam-Webster's Collegiate 11 (En-En) > sinister > a. : of, relating to, or situated to the left or on the left side of something; especially : being or relating to the side of a heraldic shi…
The bar sinister? Calling that a sense of the English word would commit you to saying that "vert" is English for "green", "gules" is English for "red", "or" is English for "gold", etc.