The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Tim May:

Teresa, I can't believe you haven't learned Greek. It's the only language with a middle voice.

Oh, it is not. Plenty of other languages with a middle voice. Icelandic, for one. And, um, (looks at the examples in Payne's Describing Morphosyntax) various Mayan and Cariban langages, among others.

(Admittedly, there's a certain degree of disagreement among linguists as to what qualifies as middle.)

I don't think it's particularly unreasonable to say that a writing system was invented by an illiterate man, although obviously it poses the same kind of logical puzzle as to say that the world's oldest person has died.

There's a pdf of the Book of Mormon in the Deseret alphabet here - I don't know quite who would want this, but it's kind of cool to look at that much continuous text in the script.

Incidentally, I think the information on Deseret in Unicode is out of date - it's apparently been encoded in the Supplemental Multilingual Plane since version 3.1 (March 2001).

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