[HILO | THREAD | 討論] Being that my quest for preserving popular Chinese handwriting is becoming more complex, I have decided to transform it into a real project. I present you:
PopuZi
A project to collect modern Hanzi handwriting and have a bot exhibiting them!
There's an *amazing* class of Korea-made sinographs that carry Korean phonetic elements, e.g. 乙 to show that it is a Korean word pronounced with -l (-ㄹ): Like 乭 ('stone') = tol 돌.
Also 乫 (kal), 乺 (sol), (乽 chal) etc.
阝 (阜/𨸏) in the left part corresponds not only to rotated 丘 "hill" (two peaks) and rotated 山 "mountain" (three peaks), but also to "stairs", which converged with the rotated 山 pretty early (already in Shang), due to graphical similarity
we have 有 "to have" and 冇 "to not have", so why don't we apply the same thing to 朋 "friend" when you have no friends?
but reality is cruel and this is just a form of 从 "to follow", what a missed opportunity...
Road safety in Taiwan is notoriously bad, which cost thousands of lives annually. Dense population, bad driving habits, and poor road design worsen the problems. The map shows the traffic accidents that happened in 2021. The style is heavily inspired by @MrPecners.
#maps#GIS
Mcdonald's has 404, and KFC has 179 stores in Taiwan. They are major fast food chains in Taiwan. Although they are rivalries, lots of stores are next to each other. After overlapping 5 min driving area of each store, we find out that most city centers have both of them. 1/2
Algo desternillante de las elecciones a concejal en Taiwán (muy complicadas).
Después de los últimos sondeos legales, los candidatos a borde de perder o no conseguir escaño añaden un 搶救 (SALVAR) gigante a sus pancartas, como si fuera Operación Triunfo esto.
#選舉#台灣
Entre ellos estos dos señores que empezaron su campaña hace como 1 año casi, que lo hablamos, añadieron también un SALVAR (搶救) gigante a sus pancartas. Y tienen que ser de los que más he visto gastar en parafernalia.
https://t.co/mujcMHczwE
Charm wars ahead of Taiwan's 2022 local elections. Pushing for two young men is no coincidence. It's politics of attractiveness. And also a demographic symptom.
By the end of the century, Africa will be home to 40% of the world’s population – and nowhere is this breakneck-pace development happening faster than this 600-mile stretch between Abidjan and Lagos. This piece by Howard W. French is really eye-opening.
https://t.co/vGpJpQPfBj