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Re: Nice comment, Adam! (was: beautiful scripts)

From:J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...>
Date:Monday, October 15, 2001, 17:15
In a message dated 14.10.2001 04:33:40 PM, cowan@MERCURY.CCIL.ORG writes:

>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.
eh? that's a new one to me ... boy-o-boy, wouldn't it be difficult if They-Who-Make-Power-From-The-End-of-a-Gun had chosen "Running Grass" Cursive Style, *gigglabyte* czHANg marvelling at all the Sinophiles ::tip o' dhe hat to ya peeps:: ViVe Sinophilia!!! *snarfle*