Good Characters, Inc. (oh, the irony) has launched a new application for Apple iPhones called "Chinese Alphabet".http://goodcharacters.com/blog/blog.php?id=110The application uses a set of random Chinese characters to correspond with 26 letters in English alphabet. The company claims this will "add mystery to your writing".At least they are smart...

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MERRY JESUS-BIRTHDAY! to all of you, my patient fellow Sundergirdians*, or, as a soul might say in the Half-Continent, "Hale Thisgivingday!"Time is inexorably moving on and not too soon we will be in the actual year of Book 3's publication (if not the month yet).I want to thank you all for a year of great (though, I confess slow) blogging, of the...

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http://www.bme.com/tattoo/A91210/high/jyc7-tribals-natural.jpgAt firs, it looks like pure gibberish - mixed Japanese and Chinese characters:厉 カ ネ 羊 But looking more carefully, perhaps the idiot started with these characters:励祥But then he decided to switch from horizontal to vertical writing, and then split up the characters at the wrong places,...

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from: Herouth M.to: tiangotlost@gmail.comdate: Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 1:43 AMsubject: [Fwd: Emailing: P1230294.JPG]Hi. I'm from Israel. Love your blog. The story goes like this: I study Japanese for several years now, and I can read about 1400 kanji more or less. One day, my co-worker approaches me with his cellphone. "Can you tell me what this says?"...

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