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The languages of the world have always interested me . I come from a backround with three languages though I only speak two of them . The effort to learn the second one and its opening up the door to a third has perhaps made my mind more fluid and has certainly helped me with problem solving .
Enough about me . I watched a film clip of a Chinese gentleman writing to his wife while on a plane ride . Even though he had a fairly ordinairy looking pen it was obvious that he was painting this message to his wife , he wasn,t writing it . There was a very personal way in how he shaped the characters . Every touch of pen to paper had meaning . Not just every character he wrote . You could see the way he made them that thought went into every florish(sp) . I have had an inkling that theirs is a very figurative language and that a single character can say much . It seemed to me as he made the character his thoughts of what this character would ultimately mean was as complex as the strokes made to complete it . As if each character was a painting that must not be jotted down so much as completed .It is pehaps that i am left handed and so have poor penmanship that I notice these things .My eye to hand co-ordination is better suited to the throwing of knives than the forming of nuances . It is nice to see poetry in everday life ..
Enough about me . I watched a film clip of a Chinese gentleman writing to his wife while on a plane ride . Even though he had a fairly ordinairy looking pen it was obvious that he was painting this message to his wife , he wasn,t writing it . There was a very personal way in how he shaped the characters . Every touch of pen to paper had meaning . Not just every character he wrote . You could see the way he made them that thought went into every florish(sp) . I have had an inkling that theirs is a very figurative language and that a single character can say much . It seemed to me as he made the character his thoughts of what this character would ultimately mean was as complex as the strokes made to complete it . As if each character was a painting that must not be jotted down so much as completed .It is pehaps that i am left handed and so have poor penmanship that I notice these things .My eye to hand co-ordination is better suited to the throwing of knives than the forming of nuances . It is nice to see poetry in everday life ..
