The Null Device

A blog item I feel compelled to steal in its entirety from Jim: Mark "Zompist" Rosenfelder's site, brimming with fascinating stuff about language and culture, including a piece comparing Blade Runner and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, how to write the numbers 1 to 10 in over 4,500 languages, how to tell if you're American, English, French or German (among other nationalities), and the marvellous Yingzi, a hypothetical ideographic script, modelled on Chinese, for the English language.

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