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I wish people could stop spreading lies about writing systems; giving 3 false information in a single sentence is quite a feat. Of course cuneiform writing is a
by tasogare 5y ago
I wish people could stop spreading lies about writing systems; giving 3 false information in a single sentence is quite a feat. Of course cuneiform writing is a set of characters, a lot of which being encoded in Unicode starting at U+12000 codepoint. One character doesn't equate a syllable, some even are unpronunced (determiners), and the phonology of Sumerian make its a poor way for its writing system to transcribe English.
- macintux 5y agoIt’s entirely possible to correct someone politely, and it’s strongly encouraged here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- tasogare 5y agoMy comment isn't unpolite in any way. On the other hand your patronizing comment is rude, so it would be good you start applying to yourself what you are preaching.
- AnimalMuppet 5y ago> giving 3 false information in a single sentence is quite a feat. I'm with macintux. I think that was rather rude. Nor do I think macintux was patronizing.
- ttctciyf 5y ago"Spreading lies" is a perjorative way of referring to speech. "Lies" implies intent to deceive and excludes the possibility of a simple mistake. You may not have intended to impute intentional deception to someone, but that is what you did, and it's offensive.
- ant6n 5y agoIts also possible to be correct and still downvoted into oblivion.