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Conlangery #50: The Technology of Literacy

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How to Write Chinese Scripts With Fine Tip Pens

You want to hold the brush up vertically Yeah, and I don't know exactly why exactly that is whether it's just a Chinese cultural thing or not. It may have to do with keeping your hand off the paper and stuff but probably also to make the ink flow Better so that the ink can float just straight down. There's particular ways that you want to put the brush down in order to make the basic strokes And that works better if you're coming down vertically from the top. The characteristic look of handwritten Chinese has to do with everything to do with that brush How it is put onto the paper how it is taken on the paper and how it moves across the paper.

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