Re: [9fans] Simplified Chinese plan 9

[Eris Discordia <eris.discordia@gmail.com>]

> http://thinkzone.wlonk.com/Language/Korean.htm

Interesting. I used to think Korean, too, uses a syllabary. Turns out it's
expressed alphabetically. Expressing Japanese that way would create some
space for confusion as there are certain sounds that never combine with
certain other sounds, e.g. there are 'sa,' 'se,' 'so,' and 'su' syllables
in which 's' is heard just like 's' in 'say' but there's no 'si'--there's
only 'shi.' If there existed an 's' character and also characters for
vowels the invalid combination 'si' could be created in writing. I wonder
if Korean alphabet can be used to make invalid combinations or all possible
combinations correspond to existing phonetic constructs.



--On Friday, September 11, 2009 13:49 -0400 erik quanstrom
<quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:

>> I don't know anything about Korean writing system or IMEs but since CJK
>> ideographs (most importantly Han characters) are involved similar
>> statements may apply.
>
> for korean per ce, there are only 24 characters:
>
> http://thinkzone.wlonk.com/Language/Korean.htm
>
> one would imagine that han input methods would work
> well for han in korean text.
>
> - erik
>