Andrew Robinson is the author of Lost Languages (2002) and other books on scripts and decipherment. He is based in London. How the world’s largest language family spread — and why others go extinct ...
Two books on Chinese writing illustrate how tumultuous technological evolution can be. Every second of every day, someone is typing in Chinese. In a park in Hong Kong, at a desk in Taiwan, in the ...
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How Mandarin was almost lost to modern technology
Sending a text message in Mandarin is no big deal today. The software handles so much of the work that it’s easy to miss what’s happening behind the scenes. That everyday process came after decades of ...
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