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To: Monkey Face

Korean has a pretty unique alphabet, it has fewer symbols than the thousands in Chinese and hundreds in Japanese. As a matter of fact it has fewer “letters” than English.

You may have noticed Korean names normally have 3 syllables.

They pronounce it different than we do, we might say “Lee” but there is no “L” in that name. We might say “Park” but there is no “R”. In Korean they are pronounced “ee” and “pak”. They don’t seem to mind foreigners using the English version of their names.

As a matter of fact they used to write vertically instead of across and right to left instead of left to right. That last one changed very recently to become more westernized.


1,185 posted on 09/17/2013 11:46:36 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: GeronL

I saw a Japanese book of crochet patterns once, and though the patterns were easy to read (crochet “shorthand” as it were) the book opened from the back to the front. I never got used to it.


1,188 posted on 09/17/2013 11:49:20 AM PDT by Monkey Face (Common sense is not a gift, it's a punishment. You have to deal with everyone who doesn't have it.)
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