"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, […]

Link:

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=68447&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-sway-mo-blues

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Authors:

Victor Mair

Date tagged:

03/02/2025, 03:42

Date published:

03/01/2025, 23:31