The Asian Language
This woman, Elizabeth Tana, had some nice prints at the open studios yesterday. She pointed out that the characters in the left hand print were Asian language numbers. At first I thought she was dumb.
“There is no Asian language” I told her. She explained that Asian languages as a whole write numerals the same way. Western/European cultures do the same thing. 17 is 17 in Spanish, German and English. My mind was blown.
I think it’s only Chinese and Japanese that use those numbers. All the other hundreds of Asian languages have their own system or use ours. I like her prints, though.
Comment by Rachel — May 1, 2007 @ 1:31 pm
Do you know why that is? Thanks for pointing it out. I have no idea at all. I asked the one Asian lady I worked with today, but she didn’t know. She told me Mandarin and Cantonese look the same, but sound different.
Comment by jon — May 1, 2007 @ 10:46 pm
I speak asian. you guys let me know if you need anything translated. no problem.
Comment by matty — May 3, 2007 @ 4:28 pm