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Real Reality · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: Seoul

Uphold Korean language
It is with a heavy heart that one commemorates Hangul Day today. Five hundred and sixty years ago, King Sejong the Great created hangul, one of the world's most scientific and aesthetic alphabets, but we are not living up to his legacy today. The superior quality of hangul as an alphabet is widely acknowledged. Many linguists around the world evaluate hangul as the most outstanding alphabet in the world. A clear proof of hangul's scientific superiority and efficiency is the easy way one can enter text messages in Korean on one's mobile phone. It was because of the superior traits of our language and writing that our culture was able to flourish without being taken over by the Chinese.... Hangul is the upholder and guardian of our country and our culture.
Editorial, JoongAng Daily (October 9, 2006)
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200610/08/200610082215422339900090109011.html

Ginormousaurus · Joined: 27 Jul 2006 Location: 700 Ft. Pulpit

It is a pretty good alphabet.

And I much prefer texting in Korean over English.

Smee · Joined: 24 Dec 2004 Location: Jeollanam-do

but there's no "f"

gang ah jee · Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Location: city of paper

The writer of that editorial is an ill-informed curmudgeonly jingoist , but hangul is pretty cool, and Korea's lucky to have it.

Hangul Hwaiting!

Real Reality · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: Seoul

Hangul is the upholder and guardian of our country and our culture.
Too often, we have looked down on hangul as being inferior to Chinese characters or other foreign languages.... Starting today, we should try to speak our beautiful language in the correct way it was meant to be, in our homes, our schools and our workplaces.
Editorial, JoongAng Daily (October 9, 2006)
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200610/08/200610082215422339900090109011.html

gang ah jee · Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Location: city of paper

flotsam · Joined: 28 Mar 2006

Second.

Other than pointing out that the writers/speakers are flawed by parochialism--an old tune indeed--this post don't do much.

Diagnosis:

RR has gone round the bend. Outlived his usefulness.

Recommended Action:

Time to put him out to pasture. Or put him out of our, er, his, misery and send him to the Happy Posting Grounds...Or just post his name in a certain thread in the Off-Topic Forum.

Real Reality · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: Seoul

"Hangul is the upholder and guardian of our country and our culture."

Did Kim Il Sung know this? Does Kim Jung Il know this?

gang ah jee · Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Location: city of paper

flotsam · Joined: 28 Mar 2006

gang ah jee · Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Location: city of paper

RR must be disappointed that nobody has stepped up to call Koreans nazis with a language that sounds like the barking of dogs yet. Still, we're only on the first page.

flotsam · Joined: 28 Mar 2006

And he's currently frantically searching realitychives for just the right prop to hook just that response. Poor geezer.

mateomiguel · Joined: 16 May 2005

i do not count a language as superior that cannot spell CAT. or HAT. or my own name, Matt.

Gwangjuboy · Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Location: England

There is little doubt about it; hangul is a great alphabet. It is much easier pick up than its Asian counterparts.

billybrobby · Joined: 09 Dec 2004