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Writing Chinese umopapisdn
Back in my university (Florida Atlantic University) [1] days, I took a class
in Chinese calligraphy [2] (because … well … just because). While I only
learned how to write about a dozen different logograms [3] I did learn that
there is a definite “drawing” order in writing them (generally, left to
right, top to bottom), and because of that, the individual strokes will have
a certain “look” to them.
So while Bunny and I were at an Asian-themed restaurant [4] tonight, I
noticed some Chinese logograms on the wall.
[Even umopapisdn (it helps if you turn your head upsidedown), this is way
better than it used to be. At one point, they had random lines on the walls
that some clueless “artist” thought looked like Chinese writing. I found that
way more annoying than this.] [5]
They were upsidedown.
Seriously.
Once I saw those, I could not ignore them [6].
Sigh.
[1]
http://www.fau.edu/
[2]
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/chcl/hd_chcl.htm
[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_characters
[4]
http://www.stircrazy.com/
[5]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2016/02/18/umopapisdn.jpg
[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cue_mark
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