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Re:Lost languages discovered in the oldest continuously run ... by nitrogen on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @12:58PM (#29797712)
Regarding writing systems for English, have you seen this one? We had to learn about it when growing up in Utah:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deseret_alphabet

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Re:Lost languages discovered in the oldest continuously run ... by xedrac on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @12:19AM (#29805432)
As a Utah native, I'm curious what decade you were taught this. I've never seen it before, but it looks pretty similar to one I created as a kid to pass secret messages back and forth with a friend.
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Re:Lost languages discovered in the oldest continuously run ... by nitrogen on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @01:44PM (#29813147)
It would most likely have been in a state history section some time in the 1990s.
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