Re: Cherokee

>From: Carlos Thompson "<cthompso@...>"
>Subject:      Cherokee
>
>I've just find this on another list, in case someone finds it
>interesting:
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>-- Carlos Th
Hola, Carlos;

I was also online this pm and found the below quote. Apparently messing
around with language has always had the potential to be hazardous to
one's health! Topic Cherokee: My grandmother married a half-Cherokee
after my biological grandfather left her, and my relatives from that
union have phenomenal memories, something I cannot lay claim to.

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>The invention of SignWriting is at times compared to the invention of
>the written alphabet for the Cherokee Indian language. The Cherokee
>Indian chief Sequoyah, who invented the written form for his native
>spoken language, was also surrounded by controversy for 25 years. His
>own people burned his books and threatened his life. They actually put
>him on trial for being a witch, but then he taught the jurors at the
>trial how to read and write (I am not kidding, that is the story!) and
>they decided it was pretty terrific!! So instead of executing him, they
>decided to use Sequoyah's alphabet, and now the Cherokee Indian language
>is preserved for future generations.
>>>>>
THE QUOTE FROM THE NET:
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>"Hsun Tze, who lived about seventy years after Mencius, in his chapter on
>the Rectification of the Names, repeats the recommendation found in the Li
>Ki, Book III, iv, 16, that those who introduce new terms or make
>unauthorized distinctions should be put to death."
> ---  I.A. Richards, *Mencius on the mind* (London: Kegan Paul. 1932.)
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