Re: "invention" of silent reading (McLuhan)

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From: LEE Sau Dan
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 12:49

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>>>>> "Dylan" == Dylan Sung <dylanwhs.tsktsktsk@pacific.net.hk> writes:

    >>  I've never seen this in Chinese.  Maybe, the Japanese invented
    >> it?

    Dylan> Er, the characters were in Big5, so they're probably
    Dylan> Taiwanese.

I also noticed  maybe 10 years ago that these  characters were in Big5
fonts.  I suppose those  are for use in signs so as  to pack things up
to occupy less  space.  

In many  Japanese fonts, they have  characters for "month 1"  .. up to
"month     12"      (Unicodes     U+32C0     to      U+32CB).      See
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U3200.pdf for more. I won't conclude
from this  that "month  1" is one  character.  They just  compose such
character  combinations to  make it  easier to  pack things  neatly on
fixed-width displays.

That character for "library" is  different from these because it can't
be graphically broken up into the 3 characters it represents.

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Lee Sau Dan                     +Z05biGVm-(Big5)                    ~{@nJX6X~}(HZ) 

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