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kermo
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| the letters used in english are NOT 'the english alphabet'! by your logic, romanized korean (e.g. anyeong haseyo) could be considered 'the korean alphabet' as well! you need to compare apples with apples! |
An alphabet is the set of letters. How is "anyeong haseyo" a set of letters? |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
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| Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 5:46 pm Post subject: |
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There are quite a few exceptions when it comes to pronouncing written Korean:
ㅂ sometimes sounds like ㅁ when followed by another consonant ie: 감사합니다
ㄱ sometimes sounds like ㅇ when followed by a vowel ie: 북여중 (my school)
ㄹ sometimes sounds like ㄴ when preceded by ㅇ ie: 종로 and the aforementioned 강릉
There are far fewer exceptions in Hangeul than in the roman alphabet (that I'm aware of, if anyone knows better, by all means).
The problem with Hangeul is lack of diversity. Sometimes the same character means 5 or 6 completely different things because the Chinese character (Hanja) it's derived from is different.
Which alphabet is more efficient? Dunno.. |
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JustJohn
Joined: 18 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Underwaterbob wrote: |
| Which alphabet is more efficient? Dunno.. |
Spanish.  When it comes to phonetic consistency I have yet to see anything that rivals it. |
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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| Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 6:44 pm Post subject: |
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| JustJohn wrote: |
| Underwaterbob wrote: |
| Which alphabet is more efficient? Dunno.. |
Spanish. When it comes to phonetic consistency I have yet to see anything that rivals it. |
Indonesian and Malaysian are pretty much bang on as well. |
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ernie
Joined: 05 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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[quote="kermo"][quote="ernie"]the letters used in english are NOT 'the english alphabet'! by your logic, romanized korean (e.g. anyeong haseyo) could be considered 'the korean alphabet' as well! you need to compare apples with apples![/quote]
An alphabet is the set of letters. How is "anyeong haseyo" a set of letters?[/quote]
writing korean using roman characters is what i'm talking about here... my point is that you can't really compare korean written in hangeul with english written in roman script because the first was designed specifically for the language while the second was not...
if you're comparing types of scripts, then you should use a romance language (french, spanish, or italian) with romance script as a basis of comparison with korean and hangeul... you must control your variables! |
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