菲 - Fei1 - Fragrant

Mark Rosenfelder really likes 王菲. But that’s one of the less interesting pages on his site. Here’s some other pages that I particularly liked:

If English was written like Chinese: The step by step transformation of English into a pictogram based language. You’ll learn a lot about why Chinese is the way it is.

The Zompist Phrasebook: Such useful phrases as “We kicked your ass in World War II”, “Where can I find the dissidents?”, “So far as I can see, Heinlein is just a second-rate Ayn Rand.”, “There’s a corpse on the bed. Please change the sheets.”, and “Oh sure, you’re going to shoot me, right?”

Virtual Verduria: An entire fantasy world he created, complete with 10 different languages (for example: flaidish), an atlas, and a Civ style chart of which cultures were powerful at what times in Almean history.

The numbers 1 through 10 in many languages: How many languages? 4500. That has to be all of them, right? Including hundreds of Chinese dialects.

Hiragana Flashcards, Fun facts about Quencha, language of the Incas, How to create your own language in N easy steps, his own comic strip, his other own comic strip, his own line of t-shirts, and a simple explanation of the events of the past 100 years.

He also has a weblog type section and innumerable other things. You can spend several days reading the whole site. Have fun!

By the way, Mark, if you ever notice this: What’s a zompist?