From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:47:06 +0100 From: Eris Discordia To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <87hbv8wyyn.fsf@plap.localdomain> References: <4d9108733c892b0a33fd35bb8df27e14@quanstro.net> <87hbv8wyyn.fsf@plap.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: [9fans] Simplified Chinese plan 9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6e8bd1ba-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I've been, for the time being, officially p9-gagged due to "core-dumping"=20 on the list. But thanks anyway for the information. And yes, the Latin=20 alphabet does function. --On Monday, September 14, 2009 09:33 +0000 Paul Donnelly=20 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" (=EC=8B=9C, 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. >