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.