The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

[Jorge_Stolfi]

Yes, but to do that, you have to turn the glyph upside down. That’s an additional “assumption.”

But it is not just that character.  All three Big Red Weirdos look like badly copied Chinese characters when turned upside down -- and do not look like anything plausible when looked "upside up".

And I even have an explanation for why they were turned  that way.  Chinese books have the binding on the right side, opposite to European books.  So the theory is that the Author, who could not read Chinese characters, instinctively turned the book so that the binding was on the left side...

And for some fun:
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All the best, -- stolfi

PS.  Turning that fun upside-down, I once I saw a T-shirt here in Brazil that said (in English) "Cool Head and Binded Antenna".  Which will only make sense if you know the relevant Brazilian slang from the 90's, and that the Portuguese word "Ligada" has two very different English translations...