From: baloo@ursamundi.org   
      
   On Monday, July 2, 2018 at 12:40:41 PM UTC-5, Snuhwolf wrote:   
   > On 06/07/2018 09:58 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:   
   > > On Thursday, June 7, 2018 at 3:41:12 PM UTC-5, Snuhwolf wrote:   
   > >> On 6/5/2018 6:28 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:   
   > >>> On Monday, June 4, 2018 at 8:45:17 PM UTC-5, Snuhwolf wrote:   
   > >>>> On 06/02/2018 11:55 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:   
   > >>>>> On Thursday, May 31, 2018 at 2:29:37 AM UTC-5, tom wrote:   
   > >>>>>> I have noticed that alt.fan.furry can sometimes look different   
   > >>>>>> depending on what server i dial into.   
   > >>>>>> If you can read this message, what server are you coming in from?   
   Right   
   > >>>>>> now i am coming form AIOE.   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> I'm on Google Groups these days, but at one point I actually ran my   
   own newsserver.  Been here about 21 years.   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>> OMG! Yer still alive! Hey...um..Baloo I think it was?   
   > >>>   
   > >>> Yup, that's right!   
   > >>>   
   > >> Do you know any Russian speakers? I'm learning that in my spare time.   
   > >   
   > > Nope, I'm more interested in learning (casually since I don't get much   
   contact with them) Spanish, French, Muscogee and Cherokee, which are local   
   minor vernacular languages to me.   
   > >   
   > Cherokee's gotta be hard.   
      
   It's got 86 syllables and a diacritic in it's syllabary (not letters and   
   alphabet), in two cases, for a total of 344 characters, originally derived   
   from spoken Cherokee.  One syllable (four character combinations and old   
   Cherokee typewriters have a    
   stupid number of shift keys) fell out of use over time on it's own.  Then the   
   1990s happened and technology had an indelible effect on the language thanks   
   to the limitations of computers and phones after that:  Lowercase, and the   
   diacritic for tongue    
   click fell out of use (and many people, especially those who didn't learn it   
   in school growing up, simply don't even recognize lowercase Cherokee at this   
   point).  So currently, down to 85 syllables, monocase, used presently.   
      
   Plus my exposure to seeing it is limited to public buildings and traffic   
   signs, so it's *usually* clear by context (like, it's pretty easy to tell what   
   a North American speed limit sign or stop sign is, and getting lost AF is a   
   good way to pick up some    
   vocab just to figure out the street names).  Though I did have an embarrassing   
   incident involving a full bladder and a pair of restrooms, the signs only had   
   Cherokee legends and no pictographs.  So I decided to go for the 50/50 and   
   picked wrong, and it    
   was busy.  Whoops.  And lately I don't even get that since I live in the   
   Muscogee Nation (*way* easier, they use an 18 character truncation of the   
   English alphabet with easy-enough-to-figure out pronunciation (like, for   
   example, Mvskoke is the tribe's    
   name in that language, pronounced almost identically as it is in English) and   
   I don't end up in predominantly indian towns anymore given my field service   
   job now is limited to about a three block radius, so I walk to almost all of   
   my service calls    
   instead of putting hundreds of thousands of kilometers on my car every year.   
      
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