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January 18 2011

tripleentendre
00:22

Language Log » The Assimilation of English in Chinese

Is there a more general term, above 'ambigram', that would cover things like the intentions involved in the calligraphy of "writ[ing] English words in the shape of Chinese characters"?
Tags: language metaphor puns visual letterforms chinese