Re: Co-ordinated spelling
| From: | Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, August 21, 2000, 15:47 |
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On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, John Cowan wrote:
> Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
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> > <wry g> So is it Chinese with the suffixes, or Korean?
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> Korean, and Japanese too.
I've never been sure if they were suffixes or particles. :-p I need to
find a descriptive grammar sometime and figure out the names for the
things I know of.
> > I'm fond of the little clumps, but that may be cultural bias. :-)
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> Naah, they're great. Even better is the way the individual letters look
> like mouth positions.
I am told that was by deliberate design, which is possible since the
alphabet was designed by a committee of scholars, but OTOH I had that
from another Korean, and I'm always wary of nationalism. :-/