can mitt romney read this??

One of my peculiar interests is lost or obscure alphabets. As if the Mormons couldn't get more kooky, few are aware that in the mid 1800's a unique writing system was introduced into Brigham Young's nascent colony of Utah. Known as the "Deseret" alphabet, it consisted of 38 characters, and was the creation of one George Watt, the first British convert to Mormonism and an early settler. Watt believed his alphabet was a more pragmatic, non phonetic way of writing the English language, and it had the added benefit of being a secret code completely inexplicable to the outside uninitiated. Works were published in the new script but despite heavy lobbying from Young it never took flight.