Re:Abstractions my Deep Learning word2vec model made
by aswanson on Sunday June 14, 2015 @02:33PM
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There seems to be a pattern in Asian languages that try to equate symbols that represent things to the physical respresentation. I recall a friend stating the Korean word/character for balance looked like a person holding jugs of water on each shoulder.
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Re:Abstractions my Deep Learning word2vec model made
by sho_hn on Sunday June 14, 2015 @04:15PM
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Some Han characters are ideographic in nature, but not all of them. Korean used to be written with Han characters (using sets of very complicated rules for how to apply them to the language) prior to the invention of Hangeul, but other than a handful of them they aren't in widespread use any more outside specialized or educational contexts. However, some of the Hangeul letters are featural in design, e.g. the velar consonant ㄱ (g/k) is meant to be a side view of the tongue when producing its sound.