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dang | on: Sequoyah’s syllabary created a written language for the Cherokee
Ok, we've changed the title using more representative language from the article.

It's plenty interesting without superfluous claims!

rayiner | parent | next
I didn’t mean to criticize the HN title—it accurately reflected the title on the linked page. I just thought the article’s choice of title was interesting given the rest of the story.
dang | root | parent
On the contrary, your point was a great one and we want HN titles to be accurate! This is implicit in the ancient PG lore: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

It's helpful when HN readers do the actual work of understanding for us because we can't read even a tiny fraction of what gets posted here (and my capacity for even that is declining monotonically). But we're always happy to swap a title when someone posts an apt observation.

mrandish | root | parent
> we can't read even a tiny fraction of what gets posted here

I'll bet it's exhausting but your note did make ponder: If a soul was condemned to the eternal torment of reading nothing but all the user posts of one social media site for all eternity, HN would be a pretty excellent choice. I shudder to think of the alternatives.

sourcegrift | parent
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birdsongs | root | parent
> Would you care to enumerate what specifically you found interesting?

That one man, in the 1800's, saw his thousands-year old culture had a need for a written language... and just made it. And it was effective and good, and culturally spread in just years, allowing them to reach a higher literacy rate than english speakers in the country at the time.

That's interesting to me.

bcjdjsndon | root | parent
> That one man, in the 1800's, saw his thousands-year old culture had a need for a written language...

This is why the Americans were so intractably behind the rest of the world by the time Columbus found em. I think it's sad

birdsongs | root | parent
Except many native cultures in the Americas had written languages, going back thousands of years. I think the large scale genocide was a bit more sad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_languages_of_the_Am...

bcjdjsndon | root | parent
There's only so much you can pass on without writing. It's a massive benefit to a society to not have to keep everything in people's heads.