[lojban] Re: eastern languages

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 01:00:04PM +0900, Seo Sanghyeon wrote:
> 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.

It's also a constructed orthography:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_Hangul

-Robin

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