February 17, 2013 @ 1:43 am· Filed by Geoffrey K. Pullum under Language and art, Language and culture
Part of the ensuite bathroom in my room at the Deca Hotel in Seattle has wallpaper on which the decoration is text, in a variety of arty fonts. The text, repeated over and over in a variety of different fonts, is part of a poem. But there's something odd: one word from the poem is missing.
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December 5, 2012 @ 11:10 am· Filed by Victor Mair under Language and art, Writing systems
Earlier this year, I wrote about "The unpredictability of Chinese character formation and pronunciation". In that post, I had a long section on the artist Xu Bing's "Book from the Sky".
Now the artist has created a parallel "Book from the Ground". Here's what it looks like:
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