Freemocracy

June 13, 2019 @ 7:51 am · Filed by under Language and art, Language and politics, Writing

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We just posted on a calligraphic ambigram that means both "go" and "Hong Kong":  "'Go Hong Kong!'" (6/12/19).  Here's another one that does not require rotation:


(Source)

This is excellent!  As soon as I looked at it, I simultaneously saw:

zìyóu 自由 ("freedom")

and

mínzhǔ 民主 ("democracy")

[h.t. Bryan Van Norden]

June 13, 2019 @ 7:51 am · Filed by under Language and art, Language and politics, Writing


3 Comments

  1. AntC said,

    June 13, 2019 @ 8:10 am

    Carrie Lam: putting the 'mock' in democracy.

  2. Antonio L. Banderas said,

    June 13, 2019 @ 8:56 am

    This is for Chinese Handwriting Recognition (OCR) contextual information is vital, and yet…

  3. Antonio L. Banderas said,

    June 13, 2019 @ 2:52 pm

    How would this "style" would be described? Cursive sript?

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