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telophase ([personal profile] telophase) wrote2014-06-14 11:03 pm

Sexy?

English-language OCR doesn't do too well with transliterated Chinese book titles, it seems, as evidenced by this page from the book Strange Writing, a scholarly work about the genre of anomaly accounts (basically compendiums of News of the Weird and other snippets):

http://i.imgur.com/a7f5gOJ.jpg

Except for the 'Ssxy' and 'Sexy' on this page, at least it's been fairly consistent throughout with the wrong spellings.