salaud speaks

In response to a posting here about how posters to indymedia can be “unhinged”.

This is probably more discussion than a comment, but, I kinda like the term “unhinged”. I think it is interesting how these mental images of different people fit together when describing the tone of some postings using indymedia.

“Unhinged” seems [...]

I was thinking about the differences between phonetic written languages and pictograph languages a little more today. I have been learning how to read Chinese and was surprised to find that a great percentage of the written language is now a mix of ideographs and a phonetic component. I was under the impression [...]