Strange Chinese on South African album cover

Language Log 2026-02-05

Summary:

From Charles Belov: YouTube music's algorithm suggested to me an album, 24 Hours in Soweto, in the amapiano genre that I love which mostly comes from the Zulu community in South Africa. I was struck by the album cover, which seems to have some random Chinese characters, some garbled. Wondering if it's AI art. Can you make any […]

Link:

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=72755&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=strange-chinese-on-south-african-album-cover

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Tags:

artificial

Authors:

Victor Mair

Date tagged:

02/05/2026, 22:12

Date published:

02/05/2026, 21:09