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Chinese-English Bilingual Ambigrams

These have been around a while on Dr. David Moser’s website, Cognitive China. Just in case you haven’t seen them, though, be sure to check out these Chinese-English bilingual ambigrams. Two samples: Good stuff. See the rest on Cognitive... ...full story at Sinosplice

from Sinosplice on Tue, Jun 30 2009

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