Just.... Wow.

Appears to be the traditional Chinese character for zen.

禅 <-- that is the simplified version

http://www.chinese-word.com/data/3967.html

Seriously, oriental calligraphy fascinates me. Can you image what the typewriters look like?

Anyway, word processing was a real benefit for users of Asian languages.

The result of the complexity of the script was that Japanese and Chinese people wrote almost everything by hand, including business letters. Secretaries were supposed to have clear, elegant handwriting. (But they had printing presses before the West did.)

There were very few typewriters in Japan. I happened to see one. It was the size of a large chess board and had squares with the characters on top. On the side was a movable arm with a hole on the end. You moved the arm till the hole was over the character you wanted, and then you punched. It was about as fast as a Ouija board.

Given the clumsiness of the typewriters, the Japanese adopted personal word processors at a time when few Westerners had them. They have since been replaced by computers.

I know, I know...

Go Home Yankee Capitalist Imperialist Gangster Bandit Landlord Dog.

Where did you find this written?