> Hi!
>
> Tristan McLeay writes:
> >...
> >>
http://wiki.frath.net/Hangraphy
> >
> > I can't speak for Henrik, but my idea of applying
> it to English is
> > evidently different. In Hangraphy, characters
> apply to IE morphemes, so
> > "werewolf" and "virtue" both begin with the same
> character,
> > representing the PIE morpheme *wī-ro-. Under my
> system, whereas
> > "werewolf" might be spelt [human][wolf], "virtue"
> would be spelt
> > [virtue] or [good][quality] ...
>
> I haven't decided yet what I like best. It would
> seem that I need to
> look into it more closely to decide which system I
> find best suited.
> I do feel that due to German's strong compositional
> tendencies, I'd
> want to go for one Hanzi per (German) stem, but this
> might indeed be
> very complicated because obviously, Hanzi are made
> for Chinese stems
> and thus there is no one-to-one correspondence with
> German. Also,
> there are many Latin and Greek words in German I
> would first try to
> analyse and compound with corresponding Hanzi, but
> this would get even
> more complicated.
>
> So in short: I do not know yet what I'd do, but I
> find assigning Hanzi
> to German/Latin stems very appealing. It might turn
> out to be
> infeasible, though.
>
> **Henrik
>