Get it right or get punished! - The devil is in the detail

[@karstenriisgaard5797]

Thanks for the video!

[@anetteholmgren9932]

That’s really interesting and very funny. And you speak Danish very well👍

[@WongFrankie]

Nice~

[@NiffirgkcaJ]

Very interesting~

[@sallylauper8222]

I had never made the connection previously, despite years of study, that the right to left Chinese writing seen on temples and city gates can be viewed as vertical writing with one character per column.

[@omerkaya545]

i subscribed

[@kokliangchew3609]

I believe that Japanese writing is still in the vertical format, as thought in their schools. I always wondered why the Japanese could keep their vertical format, despite being the first Asian country to modernise during the Meiji Reformation, whilst the Chinese went on to a horizontal format. I don't think that writing in a vertical format, following tradition and history, seemed to have done the Japanese any disservice.

[@calligraphyphilosophy]

In my opinions, there were two main reasons to change to horizontal writing in other countries. First, "westernization" was considered modern and advanced a century ago. During the New Culture Movement in China in 1910s and 1920s, there was discussion to abolish the traditional Chinese writing and replace it with alphabetic words. The desire to change everything to a western way also made some people believe that the horizonal way of writing in the western world was better. Second, from a technical point of view, it is easier to print horizontally if both English and Chinese are in the same article. Otherwise, you need to turn the paper 90 degrees to print the English phase in a vertical writing. In Japan, the desire of westernization was not as profound as in China because Japanese were keen on protecting their own culture. There was a proposal back in the 1940s to change to horizonal writing in Japan but it was opposed due to the nationalism in the second world war. It is also my impression that Japanese don’t use as much foreign languages as other places, so the need of horizontal printing may not be as high as other places. As at today, many Japanese are still reluctant to speak English to tourists, so it could be the need of quoting English phases in a Japanese article is not as high? But horizonal writing is not uncommon in Japan today. Online newspaper such as Yomiuri Shimbun is published horizontally. During the Meiji era, some books were printed horizontally but it just never becomes the mainstream. Actually, I think the development fits my perception on Japanese - they are keen to keep traditions.

[@kokliangchew3609]

@@calligraphyphilosophy Thank you for an informative and interesting reply. Learned quite a bit today. By the way, I'm quite surprised to see a Hong Konger in Denmark? You don't see many Hong Kongers outside the English speaking countries. Speaking as a Malaysian, I do find Malaysians in many countries around the world but not Hong Kongers.

[@bjap1563]

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