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Re:Unearthing long ignored African writing system, researche... by causality0 on Monday January 02, 2023 @10:42AM (#34219063)
Ngom, who studied Arabic as a second language (the second of 12 languages that the scholar knows), was stunned. He asked his brother, still living in Senegal, to check with the neighbor to whom their father owed money. Sure enough, his brother reported, the trader had a record of the debt, too, in a similar Arabic-turned-Fula script.

What? How do you not know your father can write? How does your brother live somewhere his neighbors write the same language and doesn't know about it? What the hell is going on? This whole story is extremely suspicious.

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Re:Unearthing long ignored African writing system, researche... by originalvichy on Monday January 02, 2023 @12:19PM (#34220567)
You could be overestimating how much writing an average citizen of an African developing country performed during the 80s and 90s based on experience in your own life in the place and time you grew up in. Or it could be sensationalized.
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