 balthazarus says: Recently, a new technique has been developed that involves some software that changes the alignment of Chinese words from horizontal to vertical, and it's very popular. Chinese sentences can be read from left to right, right to left, and top to bottom. For a Chinese person reading from top to bottom is not a problem – it has been like that for thousands of years, until the early 20th century. However, the forbidden vocabulary-seeking mechanism is fooled. When all these methods fail, people can still use mobile phones and text messages, which are not covered by the censoring system yet. When all these methods fail, people can still use mobile phones and text messages, which are not covered by the censoring system yet...............YET  it's a sad state of affairs, this. and worrying, at that. Interestingly, though, the Chinese language has had a long tradition of verbal taboos. Words can be considered unlucky because they are homophonic to another word that is culturally repugnant. It's as if the English word "pismire" were to be avoided because it contains a syllable that sounds the same as "piss". Perhaps it seems worse to non-Chinese because the imposition is governmental and the censored content is political; it happens elsewhere, too. The religious right "news" site OneNewsNow consistently displayed the name of US Olympic runner Tyson Gay and basketball player Rudy Gay as "Tyson Homosexual" and "Rudy Homosexual". Another US site, with no particular religious or polit... |
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