[HN Gopher] Deseret Alphabet
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       Deseret Alphabet
        
       Author : luu
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2023-05-01 16:58 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | RegularOpossum wrote:
       | Early Mormon history is absolutely fascinating, it's fun and
       | goofy at parts, and then there's parts where quite a number of of
       | people die.
        
         | tomrod wrote:
         | Aye. Mountain Meadow Massacre and Haun's Mill Massacre are two
         | sides of a very ugly reality of the 1800s frontier where scared
         | people perpetuated war crimes and worse on another group.
        
         | daveslash wrote:
         | Early Mormon (Latter Day Saint) History is absolutely
         | fascinating, regardless of one's own 'take' on the religion.
         | Given this post is about the Deseret Alphabet, I thought I'd
         | drop this link in regarding the _State of Deseret_
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Deseret
        
       | tony_cannistra wrote:
       | > "During the alphabet's heyday between 1854 and 1869..."
       | 
       | that's pretty short for a "heyday," IMO.
        
         | tomrod wrote:
         | Utah's formal theocracy didn't last (which is good), and the
         | alphabet didn't simplify things for European immigrants (which
         | is wasteful) nor help Polynesian folks and other locales
         | assimilate (which is also wasteful). This was the heyday of the
         | relocation of recent converts to Utah.
         | 
         | But at the time, Utah territory had a huge "we do everything
         | ourselves" kick which has helped some, hurt some since. Helped:
         | the Mormons run a moderately large internal resource
         | redistribution scheme through local and global bishops
         | storehouses that are direct consequences of the policies of
         | that time period. Hurt: Mormon culture doesn't adapt well to
         | global consciousness in conflict with its triumphalism.
         | 
         | My $0.02. The Deseret alphabet has more in common with
         | iconoclastic tendencies than good functionality.
        
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