Re: Japanese from Tungus

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500, Pipian <pipian@...> wrote:

> >
> > Actually, I'd read something else in Wikipedia, that recently, in Japan,
> > it has been called Hangul, simply because they wish to offend neither
> > South or North Koreans, as North Koreans call it a different name than
> > the South Koreans ("Gugeo" instead of "Hangukmal"?)
> >
> > Pipian
>
> Correction: That the Japanese television network that was having a show
> teaching the Korean language named it Hangul for those reasons.  Needed
> to clarify.
>
Well the usage on a Japanese Television show to prevent offending both
sides doesn't mean that -gul means language. ;)

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