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mnjetter
Joined: 21 Feb 2012
Location: Seoul, S. Korea
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Every society should just teach their kids the IPA that is sufficient to express their language's phonology and leave it at that. And I mean including those speakers of languages already expressed in Roman letters. Then a speaker of English who wanted to learn how to transliterate Hangeul would only have to learn those phonological characters that do not exist in English, and boom, language accomplished.
To clarify, I am not talking about having all languages replace their orthographical systems with IPA. Hangeul is awesome for Korean, ideographic characters work for Chinese, and English would lose a good deal of etymological richness if we were to remove all indications of word origin from the various lexical items that we have. An orthographical system is as much a communicator of cultural heritage as it is a way to represent words and sounds. But it would be ultimately beneficial to everybody if we adopted a global standard for the phonological transliteration of words, and since IPA has already been invented for that, we might as well use it. |
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 5:03 am Post subject: |
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| CentralCali wrote: |
| Your case seems to be that you think there is some kind of magical correlation between the sounds of a particular language and the script used to write that language ... |
Then you have not even remotely understood it and ought not to be interjecting yourself into the conversation. Using your own misunderstanding as a rhetorical tool is ridiculous.
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| By the way, the evolution of a script has no relationship whatsoever to the evolution of animals. That was a strawman on your part. |
You need to learn:
1) What a strawman fallacy actually is.
2) What an analogy is.
3) Why the two are entirely different.
But you will not bother, and will instead keep acting as a distraction to an otherwise interesting conversation, so forget it. Sorry Lichtarbeiter, but I am not going to discuss a nuanced matter like this while certain parties sit in the peanut gallery heckling. I haven't as much spare time as I used to, and I certainly am not going to waste it being annoyed. |
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everything-is-everything
Joined: 06 Jun 2011
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| Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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Don�t believe the 하이프
by Bobby McGill on October 9, 2012
in Korean Media
Some of you might remember all the media hype about the Cia Cia tribe, a group of 80,000 on the remote Indonesian island of Bau-bau, officially adopting Hangeul as their native script.
Well, that was a load of phooey.
The Hangeul adoption program, which was announced in 2008 was apparently never even asked for.
�Mayor Tamim (of the Cia Cia) only mentioned that official discussions have begun and he was consulting with the central government over the adoption of Hangeul in a media interview,� he said. �However, the media wrongfully translated his remark as if he had received formal acknowledgement from the government.� |
http://www.rjkoehler.com/2012/10/09/dont-be-believe-the-%ED%95%98%EC%9D%B4%ED%91%B8/
Perhaps another propaganda piece by the Korean government? |
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