Cutting edge calligraphy
Language Log 2025-01-04
This is a truly impressive form of calligraphy, the likes of which I've never seen before:
What won't they think of next as means for writing sinographs?
Selected readings
- "Writ in water" (7/4/14)
- "Calligraphy as a 'first level discipline' in the PRC" (9/28/22)
- "Robot calligraphy" (12/27/19)
- "Robotic copying" (2/22/19)
- "Mechanistic writing of Chinese characters" (9/14/19)
- "Writing characters and writing letters" (11/7/18)
- "The esthetics of handwriting" (5/8/16)
- "The esthetics of East Asian writing" (4/7/12)
- "Bad Chinese handwriting or just another style?" (10/3/17)
- "Handwriting legibility" (10/19/15)
- "Learning to write Chinese characters" (7/29/17)
- "Copying characters" (2/11/13)
- "Writing Chinese characters as a form of punishment" (11/1/15)
- "Cursive" (3/30/14)
- "Cursive and Characters: Dying Arts" (4/29/11)
- "The wrong way to write Chinese characters" (11/28/18)
- "Stroke order of Chinese characters" (9/4/18)
- "Idiosyncratic stroke order" (11/23/18) — and the long list of earlier posts at the bottom
- "Chaotic calligraphy" (8/6/18)
- "Character Amnesia" (7/22/10)
- "Chinese character inputting" (10/17/15)
- "The cost of illiteracy in China" (3/31/12)
- "The sociolinguistics of the Chinese script" (8/20/17)
- "The benefits of handwriting" (9/16/19)
- "'Collapsed' calligraphy" (12/3/19)
- "'Collapsed' calligraphy, part 2"
- "Badge of honor: Language Log is blocked in China" (12/26/19)
- "Christian Dior's 'Quiproquo' cocktail dress and the florid rhubarb prescription written on it" (6/5/15)
- "Calligraphic tie: 'Letter on the Controversy over Seating Protocol'"
[h.t. Tim Leonard]