Hryvna Spells Confusion

In far too many cases, orthography is most definitely not destiny

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I’ve seen too much of human folly in my life to have an unbounded stock of optimism; nevertheless I cling with almost childlike earnestness to the idea that if a culture is going to expend the trouble to record things orthographically and if the intent of such written productions is to permit readers to form a…