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Re: Tsuhon: tentative phonology

From:Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
Date:Thursday, May 3, 2001, 20:41
On Thu, 3 May 2001, SuomenkieliMaa wrote:

> --- Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> wrote: > > On Thu, 3 May 2001, Henrik Theiling wrote: > > > > > Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> writes: > > > > What works, works. :-p I can attest that my > > spelling in Korean is > > > > atrocious, so at least you'd've spelled things > > right. =^) > > > > > > Hehe. Actually, I wrote > > > > > > |____ | | +---+ | > > > | | | | | |- > > > | |-| +---+ | > > > `---- | | | > > > | | `---- > > > > Yup; came through well. Bet your Korean > > handwriting's nicer than mine, too! > > Not to sound like I would be condescending or > anything, but isn't the above Hangul spelling out > "tae-man"? Is that how you write "Taiwan"? Wouldn't > the second character's top left-hand square ("m") be > something else? Just curious...
It does, and that's apparently another way for Koreans to say "Taiwan," the other being "t'a-i-wan." YHL