More Chinese menu shorthand, part 2: the future of the Chinese writing system
Language Log 2025-12-23
Summary:
From Xinyi Ye: I was on my way home from HKU (Hong Kong University) and was looking for a dinner place and found this handwritten menu: (explanations and annotations below) Xinyi is not a native of Hong Kong, but she has been living there long enough to know the folkways and even to be sufficiently […]