This is the illusionist in which I, Helen Zoltzmann, during the year 2022, have brought you

the surprisingly long history of the name Tiffany. The surprisingly short history of Fiona,

we considered the lexicans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Golden Age Detective fiction.

We met the protest vote Morinosseros and there was a quiz all about animal otomologies

and a tranquil illusionist about Australia's big things. We dug into the terms of rainbow

washing and queer baiting and a book and we went deep into the multilingual warning message

inside a kind of surprise egg. And now, I've been saving things up all year and now it's

time to smash open the piggy bank to play the annual parade of bonus bits. These are the

interesting things this year's interviewees said that I didn't include because their

episode was already too long or on a different topic but now here they are. Conten note,

there are some illusions to Baudi talk and there is one category A swear. There are discussions

of mental health and there's a brief reference to parental violence. On with the show.

On the in character episode, Jingsu talked about how Chinese writing systems dealt with

the challenges of new technologies like telegraphy having been designed for European writing systems.

One of the things Jingsu mentions in her book Kingdom of Characters is new shoe a writing

system used only by women in one region of the province of Hunan.

New shoe is basically women's script and is developed kind of like a new formal writing

for women who otherwise had no access to education in a society, traditional society.

My favorite thing about that script is it's slenderer, it's thinner than what you see

a character but these are these individual markings and it's a lot of crisscrossing

patterns and it's because they're used to approximate patterns that women see when

they do embroidery. So it's this incredible relationship or reflection on their social

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