An impressive gallery of the many and varied ways Japanese give typographical expression to emotions ("Looking uncomfotable and he wants to leave"), personalities ("Am I pretty?"), actions ("Two people holding glasses and saying 'Cherrs' Giving a toast"), and existential states ("Someone wearing sunglasses and with a scar on his face, so he is...who?"). Via Anita Rowland.
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Posted by languagehat at June 14, 2003 12:26 PMIt's interesting to me that some of these use characters that aren't just ascii, so I couldn't duplicate them.
Posted by: Anita Rowland at June 15, 2003 11:31 AMLike the John Lennon one!
They are wonderful, aren't they?
Posted by: Rana at June 20, 2003 12:47 AM