Re: Back again, with YANC

On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Steg Belsky wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Feb 2001 15:09:59 -0500 Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> writes:
> > *Would*
> > pictogram writing have conjugations necessarily?  (Ignorance
>
> Well, Rokbeigalmki's pictogram/morphemograph writing system records
> everything that the alphabetic system does (with a few ambiguities).
> Since Rokbeigalmki is agglutinative and not inflective, that probably
> makes it simpler.  If i remember correctly, Japanese uses Chinese symbols
> for roots and native syllablics for affixes.
Agglutination fun.  :-)  Is *that* what Japanese does?  I was wondering
why the writing system looked, hmm, mixed.  Though come to think of it,
Korean does that too with the Chinese characters it does incorporate
(Korean also being somewhat synthetic).

YHL