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Re:English is a pictographic language with 26 radicals by teddyh on Monday August 21, 2023 @06:57AM (#37207794)
Not Mark Twain! It was written in 1971 by M. J. Shields¹. It has since been frequently mis-attributed to Mark Twain, who only wrote about a similar topic in 1899².

1. <https://allhomosapienswelcome.wordpress.com/2012/05/05/iorx-...>

2. <https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70/pg70-images.html#cha...>

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Re:English is a pictographic language with 26 radicals by ajb on Monday August 21, 2023 @09:41AM (#37209476)
Ah! Thanks for the correction.
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