Re: conlan/natlang coincidences

Hi!

John Leland <leland@...> writes:
> On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Henrik Theiling wrote:
> The new system came out within the last year or so, though I think it had
> been in preparation before that. I got a batch of material attacking the
> new system from the leadership of the Royal Asiatic Society: Korea Branch,
> which strongly opposed it. Personally I felt that the new system made it
> more likely that at least the average English speaker would pronounce
> Korean in a way that resembled the spoken Korean I heard when I taught
> there in 87-88. I recently ran across my copy of the RASKB mailing; I will
> try to find it again and send more information.
Oh, yes, yes! :-)

I was told (by a Korean from Seoul), that Modern Korean has phonemic vowels
length.  Is that reflected in the new romanisation?

**Henrik

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