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Agamemnon · Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 1:20 pm Post subject:

[deep voice] Don't underestimate the power of the calligraphy strips [/deep voice]
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MsHannahRose · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 16 Location: Central Minnesota

I have always been really impressed by these strips.

I mean, how the hell does he do it?

Oh man, great work.
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Xilonen · Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 465 Location: Bellingham, WA

i'm just glad the strip is back..

Lasairfiona · Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 7:39 pm Post subject:

I've always liked the caligraphy strips. They are very spiffy. The transformation isn't something you see everyday.
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PsycoMonkey · Joined: 12 Jul 2006 Posts: 447

do you think its possibly he could do a calligraphy strip for grass?

Bodhisattva · Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 7:43 pm Post subject:

It's something interesting and creative that I've not see anyone in any other webcomic doing. I like the calligraphy strips and how he uses the characters to mean things other than their standard meaning.
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Black Kitty · Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 704 Location: Under your bed.

I always find the calligraphy strips interesting and cool to look at. It reminds me of a game we started playing in elementary school where you could turn the word "boy" into a picture of a boy's head. I always picture Tat having fun making these. Smile

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mouse · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 15622 Location: under the bed

ok, i am totally ignorant, but i've always wondered - are the symbols he ends up with real pictographs? and do they mean what he says?
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Bodhisattva · Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 9:02 pm Post subject:

They are real pictographs. They do not specifically mean what he says, but you can make the correlation.
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Halen · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 1879 Location: England

They're kanji - chinese symbols adapted for japanese a couple of thousand years ago, each of which expresses an idea or a word. I don't recognise today's one, because i'm still very much a beginner, but for example:

That's 女、which means "woman".

That's 男, which means "man". And so-on.

sundesha · Joined: 12 Jul 2006 Posts: 19

I agree - it's a nice break - but it also gives us a little glimpse into Tat's artistic mind. I make correlations like that within my photography, but it's neat to see how another draws it.

Dusty · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 650

the thing about kanji is that there a specific ones and then some symbols that can be interpreted as anything in japanese (usually through context). translating a standalone symbol into english leaves it up to be alot of things. so every kanji strip means exactly what tat says it means.

Celaeno · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 2995 Location: Kzoo

Today's kanji is used in words like health and weather.

See: 元気。天気。 Romaji: Genki. Tenki.

I'm definitely not the most well-versed person when it comes to kanji, but yeah, I'm pretty sure "force" is a pretty good translation.

Dusty · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 650

Dusty · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 650

the force could definetly be drawn from how it is used.