If English was written like Chinese (1999)

Re:If English was written like Chinese (1999) by latentsea on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @02:05AM (#40571174)

This is because this is how you've trained your brain to process Japanese.

Korean includes white space for this reason, and since everyone gets used to reading it with no Hanja, they don't find it awkward.

So, it's perfectly possible to ditch Kanji and add spaces and have a way more accessible language.

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Re:If English was written like Chinese (1999) by Ferret7446 on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @03:19PM (#40577998)

That doesn't solve the homophone issue though.

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Re:If English was written like Chinese (1999) by localfirst on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @04:31PM (#40578645)

usually a parenthesis with corresponding character is used to be explicit or to avoid confusion but its strictly for chinese loan words like:

ex) 시간 (時間)

compared to furigana (note that its not even possible to display the phonetic hiragana): 第二巻

younger generation are no longer learning Chinese so more English/European loan words are directly used which ironically fixes the issue.

it is impossible to converse in Korean without using English/European loan words

ex) 아이러니 (irony)

This allows new ideas/concepts to quickly disseminate in the collective Korean psyche. Constantly new words are being invented, slangs used by primary/middle school are unknowable.

Abbreviation/concat combos to create totally new words:

ex) 씹상타치 (way **ing above average) also written as ㅆㅅㅌㅊ (wfaa) literally means

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