"The Sway Mo' Blues"
Language Log 2025-03-02
Summary:
[This is a guest post by Kirinputra.] By now we know. The secret is out. The “Chinese character” is not as different as 人 thought it was. We know sinographs don’t transcend the plane of sound — not quite like math symbols, anyway, or the man-woman bathroom icons, or stoplights. How deep is the entanglement, […]