"The insane effort to preserve this ancient script"

Language Log 2025-10-07

Summary:

How Chinese Characters Almost Died  Once again, Julesy tells it like it is. As usual, Julesy aims to finish in 20 minutes, but runs out of steam, even though she took forty extra seconds.  She knows what the essential problems are and is well versed in the history of how efforts to deal with them […]

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https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=71470&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-insane-effort-to-preserve-this-ancient-script

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Authors:

Victor Mair

Date tagged:

10/07/2025, 10:30

Date published:

10/07/2025, 07:33