The Mormons Tried To Create Their Own Alphabet

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Why are you studying the Deseret alphabet?
Because Shavian is too mainstream - https://torscabinet.com/stor [merch]
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You're doing a Pascal's wager and want to be prepared in case you end up on Kolob - https://x.com/parsons_tor
To convince your friends who don't travel much that you're fluent in Italian -   / torscabinet  
Because it reveals esoteric evidence that the Strangites were right -   / mrsluds  
It's gonna be on some golden plates you'll dig up in your backyard in 10 years -   / tor.from.oregon  

Sources & Further Info:
A Deseret alphabet translator: https://www.2deseret.com
A history of the script & its implementation in Unicode: https://web.archive.org/web/201406100...
George Watt didn't like the alphabet he designed: https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.o...
More about Unicode and the Deseret alphabet's ties to Pitman: https://web.archive.org/web/201705090...
The Mormon succession crisis, from a Mormon point of view clearly favoring Brigham Young as God's chosen successor: https://rsc.byu.edu/firm-foundation/s...
And from a more objective perspective: https://watermark02.silverchair.com/4...
Lilburn Boggs kicks out the Mormons: https://americainclass.org/wp-content...
Community of Christ, a church founded by Joseph Smith's son that once claimed to be the true Mormon church (and still owns a lot of documents & sites from early, pre-Brigham Young Mormon history) but barely retains any of the Mormons' distinctive beliefs: https://cofchrist.org
"Trates of B. Young in his charactor": http://brighamyoungcenter.org/s/byp/i...
A really fascinating historical document - the only known example of Deseret being used to write a language other than English, a guide to the Hopi language written by early Mormon missionaries: https://uofupress.com/books/an-1860-e...
Download a Deseret font (though be aware that what you type will not be 1:1 its intended spelling; I think the people behind the White Horse bar used one of these): https://deseretalphabet.org/files/fon...
Learn a little Shavian: https://physics.wooster.edu/lindner/s...
Andrew Carnegie's spelling reforms: https://www.heinzhistorycenter.org/bl...
The Chicago Tribune's spelling reforms: https://www.spellingsociety.org/uploa...
Lolcats Bible: https://www.scribd.com/document/50448...
Intro song, the Mormon hymn "If You Could Hie To Kolob":    • If You Could Hie to Kolob