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"In writing one sees the 'hanging needle', the dropping dew; crashing thunder, falling rock, flying bird, startled beast. Heavy as breaking clouds, light as the cicada's wings, graceful as the new moon, independent as the stars- it equals the exquisiteness of nature and is not to be accomplished by human effort."
-A Tang dynasty calligrapher, on how Chinese calligraphy draws from Nature.
— Jan 21, 2025 01:43PM
-A Tang dynasty calligrapher, on how Chinese calligraphy draws from Nature.
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Jan 21, 2025 08:11PM
Interesting pick, what made you choose this one?
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Mitya wrote: "Interesting pick, what made you choose this one?"General interest in linguistics, and out of all languages the peculiarity of Chinese in its historical continuity, dialects, tones that change meaning, the philosophy behind hanzi characters & how people choose to represent words & concepts, politics of Mandarin dominance & crackdowns on minority languages like Uyghur etc.. makes it the richest for linguistic & cultural study.
Fiona wrote: "Mitya wrote: "Interesting pick, what made you choose this one?"General interest in linguistics, and out of all languages the peculiarity of Chinese in its historical continuity, dialects, tones t..."
Nice! If you're interested in linguistics I hear Taha Abdurrahman has good stuff on it (for Arabs in the language of Arabic), reading a general introduction on him to learn more
Mitya wrote: "Fiona wrote: "Mitya wrote: "Interesting pick, what made you choose this one?"General interest in linguistics, and out of all languages the peculiarity of Chinese in its historical continuity, dia..."
I have Post-Secularism by him but didn't even know he wrote on linguistics so thank you for mentioning it! Already found some stuff to dig into.
Fiona wrote: "Mitya wrote: "Fiona wrote: "Mitya wrote: "Interesting pick, what made you choose this one?"General interest in linguistics, and out of all languages the peculiarity of Chinese in its historical c..."
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