Re: Nice comment, Adam! (was: beautiful scripts)
From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
Date: | Sunday, October 14, 2001, 23:33 |
laokou scripsit:
> If you've been nursed on the traditional, it's a *rough* aesthetic road
> going to simplified. Living on the mainland for four years, I got used to
> them, but I found them heavy and clunky, kind of a metaphor for the whole
> stifling Communist experience [...]
As I understood it, the great bulk of the simplified characters actually
are rooted in old cursive forms: the "simplifiers" did not so much design
them as select them.
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