From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: What does "Ma" mean, from "Ma Gnus"?
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 10:01:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r39wg1tv.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AE0301AB-D772-4BB0-85B4-67033F492D14@yw.doraji.xyz>
"Byung-Hee HWANG (황병희)" <soyeomul@doraji.xyz> writes:
> On 2016년 8월 9일 오전 9시 27분 53초 GMT+09:00, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
>>Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:
>> [...snip...]
>>> the "Ma" is actually the Unicode 0x771F char,
>> [...snip...]
>>It's always confused me, because that character is pronounced "zhen" in
>>Chinese. It's always messed with my head a little bit.
>
> In Korea, that pronounce is [jin].
> Kanji is not easy to people, indeed ...
I can mostly handle different pronunciations, but what really fries my
noodle is when Japanese has multi-syllable pronunciations for single
characters. For whatever reason, my brain's firmware has burnt into it
"one character = one syllable". Breaking that rule makes me twitch a
little.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-10 14:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-08 11:33 Byung-Hee HWANG (황병희)
2016-08-08 13:26 ` Byung-Hee HWANG (황병희)
2016-08-08 18:48 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-08-08 18:56 ` Adam Sjøgren
2016-08-08 23:14 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-08-10 3:40 ` Arkady Grudzinsky
2016-08-10 16:43 ` Adam Sjøgren
2016-08-11 13:16 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-08-09 0:27 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2016-08-09 0:42 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-08-10 10:52 ` Byung-Hee HWANG (황병희)
2016-08-10 14:01 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2016-08-10 15:23 ` Byung-Hee HWANG (황병희)
2016-08-09 12:42 ` Byung-Hee HWANG (황병희)
2016-08-10 13:09 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-08-10 15:42 ` Byung-Hee HWANG (황병희)
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