Word Chain, Once More With Feeling

[Tio_Narratore]

iambic

I took shorthand in high school. Barely passed. But it wasn't speedwriting. Pitman shorthand - It was like learning to write a completely new language. I hated it.

bicameral


Yes, Gregg and Pittman are both syllable-based rather than alphabetical. Sequoyah's written form for Cherokee is a syllabary as well, and Inuktitut was written in syllabic form. It still is, though there is also a Roman alphabetical version of it.

 

[QuietLibrarian]

bicameral


Yes, Gregg and Pittman are both syllable-based rather than alphabetical. Sequoyah's written form for Cherokee is a syllabary as well, and Inuktitut was written in syllabic form. It still is, though there is also a Roman alphabetical version of it.

albumen

Oji-Cree is a Canadian Aboriginal language that's syllabic, but it's dying out. There are very few people left who speak it. It's apparently very hard to learn, and there are so few people who know it that the language will probably die with the elders unless they can find some young teachers who are willing to pick it up and pass it along. But it doesn't seem to be happening. Sad.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

albumen

Oji-Cree is a Canadian Aboriginal language that's syllabic, but it's dying out. There are very few people left who speak it. It's apparently very hard to learn, and there are so few people who know it that the language will probably die with the elders unless they can find some young teachers who are willing to pick it up and pass it along. But it doesn't seem to be happening. Sad.

meningitis

Anicinabe (Ojibwa) and Cree are usually written in the Roman alphabet now. The Anglican missionaries, both for the Inuktittut and the Algonkin speakers devised syllabaries for writing, under the false impression that this would be easier for "the natives," basing their view on the fact that Seqouyah had devised a syllabary for writing Cherokee. The writing system is disappearing, but the languages are doing quite well, with many of the young people interested in learning and using them.

 

[QuietLibrarian]

meningitis

Anicinabe (Ojibwa) and Cree are usually written in the Roman alphabet now. The Anglican missionaries, both for the Inuktittut and the Algonkin speakers devised syllabaries for writing, under the false impression that this would be easier for "the natives," basing their view on the fact that Seqouyah had devised a syllabary for writing Cherokee. The writing system is disappearing, but the languages are doing quite well, with many of the young people interested in learning and using them.

ischemia

I'm not even going to get started on what I think about what would be "easier for 'the natives'" because the whole subject just...nevermind.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

ischemia

I'm not even going to get started on what I think about what would be "easier for 'the natives'" because the whole subject just...nevermind.

miasmal


If you really want to get set off, just think....In the 1830s, Connecticut missionaries were going to "civilize" the Cherokee by teaching them how to farm. The missionaries picked an "easy-to-grow" crop so the Indians would be successful. The crop, needless to say, was, maize. Yes. Indian corn. Yes, one of the crops the Cherokee had been growing for at least five hundred years, in fact, one of many crops the "natives" had taught the Europeans to grow.

 

[QuietLibrarian]

miasmal


If you really want to get set off, just think....In the 1830s, Connecticut missionaries were going to "civilize" the Cherokee by teaching them how to farm. The missionaries picked an "easy-to-grow" crop so the Indians would be successful. The crop, needless to say, was, maize. Yes. Indian corn. Yes, one of the crops the Cherokee had been growing for at least five hundred years, in fact, one of many crops the "natives" had taught the Europeans to grow.

alumni

 

[Tio_Narratore]

alumni

nictitate

 

[JWren]

nictitate

technical

 

[QuietLibrarian]

technical

altruistic

 

[Tio_Narratore]

altruistic

stickleback

 

[QuietLibrarian]

stickleback

ackee

 

[Tio_Narratore]

ackee

keepsake

 

[SamScribble]

keepsake

akela

 

[Handley_Page]

akela

later

 

[QuietLibrarian]

later

terrarium

 

[Fill_de_Puta]

gargle

Legendary

 

[DiminutiveDame]

Legendary

Ryas.

 

[JWren]

Ryas.

Astute

 

[Fill_de_Puta]

Astute

Tender

 

[JWren]

Tender

erotica

 

[JKendallDane]

erotica

cache

 

[JWren]

cache

hence

 

[SamScribble]

hence

centennial

 

[JWren]

centennial

Almost

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Almost

strafe