Re: Co-ordinated spelling
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 22, 2000, 2:50 |
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"H. S. Teoh" wrote:
> I have heard, however, that the Korean writing system was invented
> deliberately for the sake of being "different" from Chinese.
It was invented, but that's not the reason. The main reasons were a
desire for greater literacy, and a need for easy importing of foreign
terms, especially connected to Buddhism and the like. It is said that
the king invented it completely by himself, which, according to the book
I read, is actually plausible, given his scholarly interests.
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