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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
It's my understanding that Oriental writing depends heavily on the shape and size of the squiggles and lines that comprise the characters. Hard to believe that carving can convey the nuances.
At least there's no small print to trick you.  |
Carving is his art form, akin to sculpture, and like any written form of art can convey nuances. Certainly better than movable type. In fact we probably have lost more nuance post-Gutenberg (but retained more of the mediochre stories).
And of course he probably thinks of characters in their mirror image. Because that is what he does.
(I wonder if character carvers are less dyslexic than exercise instructors who have to switch left and right all the time. )