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[lojban] Re: eastern languages
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- Subject: [lojban] Re: eastern languages
- From: "Seo Sanghyeon" <sanxiyn@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:00:04 +0900
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2008/9/29 Chris Capel <pdf23ds@gmail.com>:
> 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.
But if you are asking about languages rather than orthographies, well,
I found all languages I learned to be very idiosyncratic, although grammatical
genders especially suck.
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Seo Sanghyeon
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