C’mon, you remember a time when a page of hànzì looked like this:
Doesn’t this seem to parallel the 2nd, 4th and 5th levels of Hanzi Hell? If you buy the analogy of learning Hanzi as “texture discrimination”, the money quote from today’s Language Log post is:
The texture-perception literature is full of contrasts among local features that “directly contribute” to texture discrimination, local features that contribute via their statistical distribution, and local features that are not accessible at all to pre-attentive texture discrimination.
Emphasis added. Without claiming to have any answers, and certainly without knowing jack about the subject, would it be too presumptuous of the Beijing Sounds studios to propose that “pre-attentive” might be malleable, specifically that it changes as one learns hanzi, or any new script for that matter?
[Yes, apologies, another audioless post -- regular Sounds to resume in near future]
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You gotta watch it with these silent entries of you’re going to start looking like that sorry excuse for an audio-based blog on Wu dialects, all verbose and nerdy. I’ve linked it in my name for a reference of what not to do.
Posted 25 Nov 2009 at 2:52 pm ¶Kellen, it’s good to have someone to commiserate with, someone who knows about the legendary flakiness of audio guys, the expensive equipment that’s prone to failures, the Human Subjects Forms that fail to get filled out properly (in triplicate and with official translations). The business is getting tough, I tell ya.
Posted 26 Nov 2009 at 6:05 am ¶Ha. Just today on the subway tvs they were showing a guy with a camera and microphone ambushing people who were standing in the walking lane on the escalator. Clearly release forms are not all that important here. But yeah, glitchy audio equipment is a bitch.
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