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An Amateur At Best
Personal blog · historyview.blogspot.comhistorywriting
An Amateur At Best is a personal blog at historyview.blogspot.com about history and writing. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “A Yukaghir girl writes a love letter”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The one comment does not discuss this blog's writing. It cites a different post on Yukaghir's semasiographic writing system and a related conlang, linked to the thread on the Unker non-linear writing system.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
My Writings On My Passions - History, Languages, Some Movies, Technology, Architecture, Life, Blah Blah Blah.
Most-linked posts?
- A Yukaghir girl writes a love letter2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-05
What Hacker News says?
Reminds me of this [1] blog post which was on HN a while ago about Yukaghir's (a paleosiberian group) semasiographic writing system. Also related is this conlang that was posted to r/conlangs maybe a couple years ago that I can't seem to find now. The idea was that you can represent elementary ideas with shapes and then connect those shapes in a non-linear fashion and add slight variations to specify certain semanti…
Comment linking /2011/10/yukaghir-girl-writes-love-letter.html
on “Unker Non-Linear Writing System”Submitted A Yukaghir girl writes a love letter as a story · 69 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Yukaghir girl writes a love letter as a story · 1 points
HN discussion