Posted by David Post: Moose: http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_03_08-2009_03_14.shtml#1236735065
One of the nice things about writing a book and loosing it upon the world is discovering instances when your work stimulates people to do interesting and creative things. I stumbled across this the other day, by Ken Liu -- "Chinese Characters for a New World". It's a new character for "moose," formed from the characters for "hand" (doubled, for the palmate antlers of the male" and "deer": References Visible links Hidden links: 1. file://localhost/files/davidp-moose_chinese_characters.png _______________________________________________ Volokh mailing list [email protected] http://lists.powerblogs.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volokh
