Re: [9fans] Simplified Chinese plan 9

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

I've been, for the time being, officially p9-gagged due to "core-dumping" 
on the list. But thanks anyway for the information. And yes, the Latin 
alphabet does function.

--On Monday, September 14, 2009 09:33 +0000 Paul Donnelly 
<paul-donnelly@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> eris.discordia@gmail.com (Eris Discordia) writes:
>
>>> 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.'
>
> Actually, I belive that in Korean, "si" (시, if that displays for you at
> all) is pronounced "shi". :P
>
>> 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.
>
> Some combinations don't occur. Especially there are dipthongs that don't
> occur. But that's not really strange or a problem. Consider the word:
> qimk. It doesn't work in English, but the Latin alphabet still
> functions.
>