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Ok, we've changed the title using more representative language from the article. It's plenty interesting without superfluous claims!
by dang 5mo ago
Ok, we've changed the title using more representative language from the article.
It's plenty interesting without superfluous claims!
- rayiner 5mo agoI 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 5mo agoOn 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 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 5mo ago> 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 5mo ago[flagged]
- birdsongs 5mo ago> 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 5mo ago> 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 5mo agoExcept 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_Americas#Writing_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_languages_of_the_Am...
- bcjdjsndon 5mo agoThere'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.
- BigTTYGothGF 5mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mesoamerican_writing_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mesoamerican_writing_...