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| "I worked at
Wellers
bookstore off and on during the entire 80s, mostly on. I worked in used
books only. One day I came across a bizarre little book from the
mid-1800s. Obviously local. It looked like a different language. It
turned out to be a phonetic script for English that the local Mormon
leaders started to get going as a local script. Now usually Mormons
obey their leaders. This is one case where they rebelled and said no.
Some books were published in this Deseret Alphabet. The Deseret News
printed some articles. Some diaries were kept in it for a time. But it
didn’t take and was given up. Well I learned it for fun, acquired
the two published Primers, and then forgot it. "But then Joe Stetich made a compilation calendar called HATU TERESED, where twelve artists each do one month. I participated in the 1989 calendar with standard English. In 1990 he suggested artists use the Deseret Alphabet. (I had turned him on to it.) Only a few did. As far as I know the other artists who used the Deseret Alphabet did it one time only and dropped it. I continued, I’ve been using it ever since, just because I find it interesting, local, and kind of weird. I certainly feel can honestly claim to be the turn of the Twenty-First Century's Original Deseret Alphabet Man, for whatever the hell that’s worth." – Bob Moss |
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