@H_YOSHIDA_1973: last night I heard from a young friend of mine who is an Indian philosophy major. The story is that the Sanskrit in the Buddhist scriptures he studies (8th century) tends to have rounded letters because they are written on leaves (paper made from leaves). This is because vertical lines are difficult to write on surfaces with many vertical fibers. It is an interesting story that “the medium (paper) defines the shape of the letters.
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@H_YOSHIDA_1973: and the further south you go, the more rounded the letters become. Apparently (because the composition of the leaves, the material of paper, changes depending on the climate zone). I imagine that the relationship between parchment and pen, or between Japanese paper and brush, is actually similar, i.e., the type of paper (composition, fibers) determines the writing style, writing order, and shape of letters, which is a more universal phenomenon than one might think.
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And cuneiform (writing) is also expressed by pressing a stick into clay, so it’s a set of wedge shapes.
@moroQma: @H_YOSHIDA_1973 Interesting story about how “writing tools (typewriters) define writing style. Interesting story that “the writing utensil (typewriter) defines the writing style”.
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Nietzsche, who was extremely nearsighted and suffered from migraines, was one of the first to use a typewriter,” but “its operability was problematic, so he changed to a concise telegram style. p126
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The reason I am creating Kozaneba digital stationery to organize your thoughts is that I believe that some stationery is easier or harder to represent than others. I believe that this bias affects the way we think.
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