Greetings, I'm looking for a word, along the lines of homophone, homograph, etc, for "two letters that look different but have the same spoken sound". I've...
Dear Corey, ... used in Korea be considered to be hanja-based Japanese loanwords, or Japanese characters? They are loanwords. There are quite a few Japanese...
Young-Key Kim-Renaud
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Mar 3, 2003 5:56 am
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... That's "homophone" ("homo-" means "the same" and "-phone" means sound). E.g., in most languages written with the Latin alphabet, <K> and <Q> are ...
Marco Cimarosti
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Mar 3, 2003 9:13 am
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thanks marco! ... sound). ... <Q> are ... I had the impression that "homophone" was reserved for describing words -? Perhaps "homophonic characters" is enough...
I've been distressed by advertising dialogue that makes this well-know name rhyme with "Sunday". I finally had the opportunity to ask a Korean-born professor...
On a simpler, but related, topic, I have chosen to use "homophone" instead of "homonym" in commonplace situations when dealing with English. Perhaps...
... Sorry, why do *you* need to define "homophone"? That's on every good English dictionary: http://www.bartleby.com/61/91/H0259100.html According to the...
Marco Cimarosti
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Mar 3, 2003 2:58 pm
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... OK, then: Wade-Giles is a Chinese romanization system, not Japanese (e.g. "Mao Tze-Tung" is Wade-Giles, whereas "Mao Zedong" is Pinyin). AFAIK, the...
Marco Cimarosti
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Mar 3, 2003 3:11 pm
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2003-03-03 10:11:00, Marco Cimarosti <marco.cimarosti@...> concisely defined Wade-Giles, Pinyin, kunrei, and Hepburn. Thank you! Nicholas Bodley |@|...
2003-03-03 09:58:17, Marco Cimarosti <marco.cimarosti@...> ... courtesy whenever I use it... ... <gentle (?) flame> Because I often write for people,...
... Hey, it could have been "Belles to Peel Again". "British Left Waffles On Falklands" -- pretty messy of them. "NOTICE: In last week's edition, we referred...
My primary interest is in correct electronic rendering of text in these languages, although it's only a desire for it to be done right, not any commercial or...
... So one of your interests is primary? ;-) ... For Chinese, I have noticed that there are three styles of line breaking, with an increasing degree of...
Marco Cimarosti
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Mar 3, 2003 6:42 pm
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... It's U+D604 U+B300, "hyeondae" in one transliteration system that seems common in some circles online. The more familiar McCune-Reischauer system would...
... I agree it's useful to clarify sometimes with definitions--linguistic terminology is sometimes mundane-sounding and may be mistaken for ordinary words or...
Abjads represent consonants with full letters, and use optional diacritics to represent vowels. 1) If a script makes its vowels optional, but uses full letters...
... They needn't be diacritics per se, I would think. ... I would think so. ... No. Thaana and Quenya-mode Tengwar are alphabets. -- Michael Everson * *...
... Well, Quenya-mode is an alphabet that could easily become an abugida, given the omissibility of the "a" diacritic. True, it has no virama, but no more...
... I beg to differ. I don't know how you read Slashdot, but reading the comments only at the 5 points level I sometimes see pearls of wisdom or writing style....
Here we go again ... ... No, abjads represent consonants only. Viz., Phoenician. ... No. E.g., Aramaic from the first example we have, and pre-Masoretic...
... Neither did the original abugida, Kharosthi, and its improvement Brahmi, because Prakrit doesn't have any final consonants. The virama turned up centuries...
2003-03-03 13:20:39, John Cowan <cowan@...> wrote some very amusing quotations. Fun! Thanks. Nicholas Bodley |@| Waltham, Mass. Sent by Opera 6.05 e-mail ...
Some souls who are borderline literate write hyphen-like marks (or centered dots?) instead of spaces as word separators when writing English. I'm wondering...
Phillip, I agree with you. I had the same experience in New York City elementary school and I distinctly remember having to create a list of 500 homonyms, and ...
... You are right. On a second read, "homophones" have the same sound and "homographs" have the same spelling. "Homonyms" can be either homophones, homographs,...
Marco Cimarosti
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Mar 4, 2003 9:21 am
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... I have too many, but some are stronger than others. What I had in mind was that I was asking from the standpoint of a dilettante (which describes me, ...
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