Re: Tsuhon: tentative phonology

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