Re: NATLANG/Learning : Sanskrit
| From: | Joe <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, August 15, 2003, 8:45 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "BP Jonsson" <bpj@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 2:36 PM
Subject: Re: NATLANG/Learning : Sanskrit
> At 11:50 13.8.2003 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
>
> >Muke Tever scripsit:
> >
> > > It might just be easier to borrow 'zi4' entirely for the whole type
and
> > have
> > > done with it.
> >
> >Not so good for North Americans:
> >
> >A: Hmm, you seem to be missing a zi4 there.
> >
> >B: Okay. (types "z")
> >
> >(Yeah, I know, it's [dz:], not [zi], but I couldn't resist.)
>
> The Japanese version wouldn't fare much better!
>
> Classical Japanese is essentially Classical Chinese with zi4 ("z")
> pronounced as ji ("g").
We could just borrow hanzi, or kanji, or what it's called in Korea....
> /BP 8^)
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