ps if anybody wants to try to get a grasp on how Book Pahlavi actually works, I'd recommend reading the recent Unicode proposals by the indomitable @anshumanpandey_ and @roozbehp

unicode.org/L2/L2018/18276…

unicode.org/L2/L2020/20246…

unicode.org/L2/L2021/21090…

https://twitter.com/iwsfutcmd/status/1666585955107520518

Unicode proposals can be a great resource for learning how a script actually works because of the nature of the necessity of dissecting it enough to work on computers

I often describe Pahlavi as the worst writing system ever invented.

Let's take a perfectly-serviceable writing system for a completely different language (Aramaic) and adapt it for our language (Middle Persian). We'll call this new script "Pahlavi".

https://twitter.com/azforeman/status/1666549104124493824

Aramaic doesn't really write all the vowels, only consonants, but that's OK for Aramaic, because through a quirk of Semitic grammar, consonants carry most of the semantics. But our language, Middle Persian, is Indo-European and *does* carry a lot of semantic weight in vowels.

TIL about one of the strangest people in recent African history.

Georges Ruggiu, a Belgian of Italian and Belgian extraction, was born to a working-class family, lived with his parents, and worked in civil service until he was 35. At that point, he had befriended a Rwandan... and became fascinated with the country. Within a year, he was rubbing shoulders with the leaders of the MRND (the then-ruling party of Rwanda) in Belgium, and shortly thereafter moved to Rwanda