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Author of ๐๐๐ฃ๐ค๐๐ง๐๐ฅ๐๐ฎ (2019) & ๐พ๐๐๐ฃ๐๐จ๐ ๐พ๐๐๐ง๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ง๐จ ๐ผ๐๐ง๐ค๐จ๐จ ๐ผ๐จ๐๐ (@uwapress, 2025). Chinese characters, writing systems, historical phonology, etc. https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295753027/chinese-characters-across-asia/
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Published: October 8, 2025 01:02
We've just enjoyed the bright harvest moon of Mid-Autumn Festival (ไธญ็ง, ์ถ์ ็งๅค, ๆ่ฆ, Trung Thu, etc.), so how about a moon-related linguistics thread? We'll look at an unusual Chแปฏ Nรดm graph and recover some lost 17th-century Vietnamese sounds, among otherโฆ
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Published: September 17, 2025 20:30
Thanks to everyone who came out last night to hear me talk about the cool stuff in my book. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
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Published: September 16, 2025 14:15
Today! https://www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/zev-handel [contains quote post or other embedded content]
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Published: September 10, 2025 17:01
My book talk at Third Place Books in the Ravenna neighborhood of Seattle is next Tuesday! Below in thread is an excerpt from *Chinese Characters Across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese*. I'll be reading more atโฆ
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Published: September 2, 2025 23:07
Are you in the Seattle area? Come see me at Third Place Books in Ravenna on Sept 16, 7pm. I'll be talking about and reading from my new book, followed by Q&A and a book-signing session. Would love to see you there. Check out the link for more info, toโฆ
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Published: August 30, 2025 05:12
1/ Geodude is a tough-looking little rock-type guy with balled-up fists ๐ค๐ ๐ค. Despite the crusty form and threatening pose, it looks more cute than dangerous. At least to me. Time for a #Pokenomastics thread! We'll look at Geodude's names in a whole bunchโฆ
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Published: August 25, 2025 23:34
The Korean-language translation of my 2019 book Sinography has just been published! This is not an easy book to translate; I'm grateful to the team of scholars, led by Prof. Lee Yong (์ด์ฉ ๊ต์๋) who worked on it. The Korean title is: ๋์์์์ ํ์ โ์ค๊ตญ ๋ฌธ์์ ์ฐจ์ฉ๊ณผ ๋ณ์ฉโโฆ
https://bsky.app/profile/zevhandel.bsky.social/post/3lwsddplltc2f
Published: August 20, 2025 01:59
I posted this quoted thread, on the 20th-century history of Chinese gendered written pronouns, in November. I've just come across a very nice 2024 article on this topic by Janet Davey in the journal Image [&] Narrative. I'll describe it briefly and put aโฆ
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Published: August 11, 2025 03:34
Thanks for this reference! Looks like the various terms are: - typographic mimicry - faux font - pseudoscript - ethnic typeface - simulation typeface - "foreign look" font I really dislike โethnic fontโ. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
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Published: August 11, 2025 03:13
I took this photo at Lumen Field in Seattle, when I went to see the Seattle Sounders FC play in a FIFA Club World Cup game โฝ๏ธ. The sign is of typographic and linguistic interest. Letโs take a closer look. 1/๐งต