Re: Easy as ABG

Lee Sau Dan wrote:
>
> >>>>> "Peter" == Peter T Daniels <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> Peter> Lee Sau Dan wrote:
> >> Maybe, you should take a look at the Korean Jamo's. Simple
> >> shapes. Pretty distinct from one another. Further, you can
> >> derive one series (aspirated) from another (unaspirated),
> >> reducing the amount of shapes you have to memorize almost by
> >> half.
>
> Peter> Now that's just silly. No one thinks of the "doubled"
> Peter> letters as varieties of the "simple" letters when they're
> Peter> reading.
>
> I do. Further, that's not what I was talking about. You're talking
> about using doubled Jamos to indicate sounds pronounced by compressing
> air.
>
> I was talking about mere aspiration. Add a horizontal stroke to the
> Jamos for /k/, /t/, /ts/ to get the Jamos of /k'/, /t'/, /ts'/.

So you don't read Korean any more fluently than Richard reads kana.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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