Re: conlan/natlang coincidences

The traditionally standard system for transcribing Korean into the Roman
alphabet would probably transcribe this word as tong (or toeng?).
I am not sure what the new transcription system the ROK government
recently put out would do.
My comment was based on what was (to me at the time) the sound as I heard
it when I was in Korea. I have tried to check this against my Korean
dictionaries and have not found it as yet.
John Leland
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003,
Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> En réponse à John Leland :
>
> >Korean "dung" has the same meaning as English.  I don't believe it is a
> >loanword.
>
> But is it *pronounced* as in English? Depending on the transcription you're
> sing, it could well be pronounced [duN], which is not that close anymore to
> the English word.
>
> Christophe Grandsire.
>
> http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
>
> You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.
>

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