Comments by "nexus1g" (@nexus1g) on "How Korea crafted a better alphabet - History of Writing Systems #11 (Featural Alphabet)" video.

When I was in high school, I had thought of developing a more compact and accurate writing system that represented phonetic sounds using spatial positioning and symbols within a square area. Then I learned about Hangul and realized I was 600 years too late.
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@지루한도토리 I am certainly not dumb, but I'm a loser and my life is an absolute mess. I'm a person who's likely not as smart as he likes to think he is while still being at least above average enough to be self-aware of this fact and aware of all the things I likely don't know. I have a false outward bravado like the world just wasn't ready for this level of genius yet, but then go cry by myself knowing I've just had a very screwed up life that I'm going to have to muddle through the best I can while I wait to die. But what I said in my OP is also true.
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@지루한도토리 You don't believe me?
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@지루한도토리 It's ok. I didn't think you called me dumb.
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@theme I had always been told I was extremely intelligent, so I avoided challenges that may lead to failures out of fear of losing my coveted label.
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@thatindiandude4602 I think he's a good person.
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@yujinkim2609 Yes! Shorthand! I didn't learn about that until I was an adult. My wife learned Gregg's shorthand when she was in high school, and she taught me about it. Read's Quikscript itself never really caught on over Gregg's system, and it's not hard to see why. Quikscript's characters have tight curves and require more careful manual dexterity to be exercised as opposed to Gregg's system, which is much more of a carefree writing style with long lines and loose loops and curves.
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@yujinkim2609 Something else that I think is really interesting is how some of the concepts of various shorthands have made it into technology. Check out stenotype and palantype machines and the details of how they work.
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