Korean Job Discussion Forums

little mixed girl · Joined: 11 Jun 2003 Location: shin hyesung's bed~

i don't see "constructed friends" as a choice Sad

pollyplummer · Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Location: McMinnvillve, Oregon

The environment of today may be much more conducive to the use of an auxlang, but, as the author most bitterly laments, the creators of these languages cannot seem to agree on much of anything and usually assume that everyone else is wrong. While the professed purpose of these languages is greater unity and ease in communication, there seems to be too much pride in the background of their creation. How then could a contructed language ever gain much popularity if every attempt for unified support crumbles in the face of pride and disagreement? Also, he says that there are thousands of options to choose from should the world decide it needs an auxlang. Are they quality options? I have no idea, since I've never studied one. Just how useful and comprehensive are they? Are there actual linguistic experts paid to create these things or are they someone's hobby? hehhehe... listen to me! Maybe 20 years from now these kinds of concerns will sound like someone a couple centuries ago saying, "But how could this idea of a telephone possibly be useful to anyone?!" Very Happy

mithridates · Posted: Sat May 21, 2005 10:08 am Post subject:

d503, how many people know your friend's language? Are there enough to start a Wikipedia? I've written a few hundred articles for our wikipedia this month and we've gone from 47th to 41st place. Going around translating articles from one Wikipedia into another is not only a good way to practice, but also to increase the chances of the language being noticed. It's also where you have to really decide on how you're going to go about transcribing foreign names and countries. Each language needs a system of its own for that, or it's screwed every time a place name comes up.
Antonius Blero - Latin for Tony Blair.

guangho · Posted: Sat May 21, 2005 1:44 pm Post subject:

I'm always going on about how you can only truly learn a language through immersion but here I am nearly 6 months in and my Korean is still nonexistent. Sad

mithridates · Posted: Sat May 21, 2005 7:28 pm Post subject:

Do you have a hanja dictionary (��)? If you're stuck at the basic level but are still good linguistically (weren't you in French immersion?) you might want to pick one up and just browse through it for a while to get a good idea of how the vocab is made up. Kind of like a dictionary of Greek and Latin roots. ��s can be bought just about anywhere for only 5000 won or so, and you don't need to know how to write the hanja either (but you do have to learn how to look them up).
Just a thought.

stumptown · Posted: Sat May 21, 2005 11:48 pm Post subject:

That's a good idea mith. During my Korean class on the weekends when the new vocabulary is being introduced, I make it a habit of asking if the words are pure Korean or Chinese. My dictionary also has the hanja characters for many of the words. If you know what the root words are, it will help you piece together compound nouns. I'm going to pick up one of the hangeul/hanja dictionaries when I go to Seoul.
Anyway, mith I pm'ed you about learning Korean. Have you seen a linguistic textbook on Korea that is published by Cambridge press. It has a great deconstruction of Korean on all linguistic levels: phonetic, morphological and syntactic. Pretty interesting stuff.

mithridates · Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 12:19 am Post subject:

The best hanja dictionary online:

http://zonmal.dreamwiz.com/

(I pm'ed you back just now Surprised

)

stumptown · Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 12:25 am Post subject:

Great site!!! Thanks

stumptown · Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 12:27 am Post subject:

Hey! What is ��? And what does the number represent?