Korean words for members of the human genus = awesome

[ljlee]

Yesterday I was curled up in the school library reading an atlas of Korean history when I came across Korean names for different hominids. Even though they're mostly direct translations from the Latin, I loved how vivid and descriptive everything sounded this way. Here's what they said:

Homo erectus = 곧은사람 (The Upright Ones)
Homo sapiens = 슬기사람 (

Comments

[lb_lee]

That is SO COOL! I love that use of calligraphy aaaaaah! What did the student win?

--Sneak

[ljlee]

Yeah, the article I got the graphic from talked about how the young man spent a month totally immersed in calligraphy, closely examining even the fonts on screen subtitles and models of early Hangul in school. He totally deserved to win IMO.

There doesn't seem to have been prize money involved, at least I couldn't find a reference to any in the 2013 or 2014 press releases of the contest, which began in 2013. I'm guessing he took home a plaque or something, plus the honor of having his work prominently displayed during Hangul Day celebrations and an achievement that looks really good on his college applications.

[lb_lee]

That is so awesome! Yeah, it sounds like he worked really hard. We have so much trouble with comics lettering and so calligraphy is always really impressive to us.

--Sneak

[ljlee]

I always thought along the lines of, "Comics lettering? Isn't that just writing or typing into a comic?" And then I actually looked it up and went like Y DIS SO HARD o_O It gives me a whole new respect for the whole craft of comic-making, that's for sure.

[lb_lee]

Comics lettering is one of those invisible arts; the average reader only notices when it's done badly. (And this is not nearly as bad as it COULD be; Twilight is one of the few things where I could actually accept people speaking in serif fonts as stylistically appropriate, in a pretentious way.)

When done well, however, comics lettering can add a whole new dimension to comics. It can do things with letters that aren't done anywhere else except in some calligraphy and advertising. Sound effects can become more robust by embodying a sound in visual depictions of the letters! A character's personality can be expressed through not just what letters spell, but how they APPEAR in their speech bubbles! For instance, in those links I just put there, Sandman's dark speech bubbles don't just say he's a somber guy, but implies that his voice isn't like a human's... because he's NOT human at all. On Deadpool directly interacts with his own bubbles for humor, and also to characterize him as questionably sane