salaud speaks

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 [...]

The experience of responding multiple times on multiple sites, in detail, to Jennifer Whitney’s article on indymedia from LiP magazine has taken its toll. This has been for good and bad. I have put a lot of time and energy and thought into my responses and its given me a chance to put [...]