cocorobot:thisisnotchina:ughwow couldn’t they have done this in a way that didn’t force
cocorobot:thisisnotchina:ughwow couldn’t they have done this in a way that didn’t force characterisation on the languages and by extension the culture? not to mention all of these depend more on the fonts rather than the writiting system. a handwritten chinese font can be just as ‘cutesy’ and a size 18pt times new roman japanese can also be ‘big and scary’. :||||||||||||||That is some ridiculously ignorant shit. Language determines the size and font style? Lol, okay, very well thought-through there.Written Japanese is based around Chinese characters (a.k.a. kanji, hanzi, hanja, chu-han) and in fact there are a number of Chinese characters in the Japanese line above, so presumably those characters are simultaneously “big scary” and “curvy little cute”. Chinese characters are also used by Koreans, though Hangul is predominant in everyday written language (I don’t see Hangul as “face-like” but I’m not on acid at the moment). And there are an awful lot more “Asian languages” than these three. Like, hundreds, maybe thousands, of languages across Asia.You could easily make a similarly ignorant, culturally biased graphic about European language. French is a beautiful, cursive language written with a fountain pen with cute little lines above certain vowels. English is a BIG BLOCKY LANGUAGE IN ALL CAPS HELVETICA. Romanian is a sprawling, messy language with jagged edges. That would makes about as much sense as the graphic above. -- source link
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