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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Elias Molee
(January 3, 1845 - September 27, 1928) was an American journalist,
philologist and linguist. Elias Molee was born in Muskego, Wisconsin,
the son of John Evenson Molie and Anne Jacobson Einong. The original
spelling of the family name was Molie. His father emigrated from Tinn in
the province of Telemark, Norway in 1839 and was an early farmer in
Muskego. Elias Molee is known as the creator of the language Tutonish.
He also invented a system of shorthand and used only lower case letters
(for example, he used "e" in place of "the") and a form of sign language
symbols. In his autobiography molee's wandering (written without capital
letters, which he considered "cruel, non-ethical, non-artistic, and
non-scientific") he describes an idyllic childhood spent listening to
tales of Norse mythology in his family's log cabin, eating "good
pancakes with milk in e dough n much egg n butter in it," and roaming
the fields picking fresh berries, plums and nuts with the local
children.