From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun Sep 28 21:44:03 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:44:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KkAc7-0000uS-EL for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:44:03 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KkAc7-0000uL-BT for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:44:03 -0700 Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:44:03 -0700 From: Robin Lee Powell To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: eastern languages Message-ID: <20080929044403.GC27820@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <737b61f30809281608q6eb27b84y80de3a442e56761@mail.gmail.com> <5b0248170809282100t60f07daag83eea3eae07a8ffd@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5b0248170809282100t60f07daag83eea3eae07a8ffd@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-archive-position: 14809 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 01:00:04PM +0900, Seo Sanghyeon wrote: > 2008/9/29 Chris Capel : > > I mean, Japan's othography system(s) scares me to death, but > > maybe a cumbersome orthography doesn't bug a logically-minded > > person as much as a cumbersome grammar does. And other eastern > > countries have reformed orthographies or (maybe?) haven't used > > ideographs in centuries or more. But I don't really know much > > about those. > > I am a native Korean speaker, and can do some Japanese. > > Japanese orthography sucks. No question. In general ideographs > suck. Thankfully, Korean orthography does not suck. It is a > beautiful work. It's also a constructed orthography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_Hangul -Robin -- Lojban Reason #17: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/ http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.