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

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*