I don't mean to be racist or anything, but Hangeul is weird

  1. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    it's literally a good alphabet, fuck off moon rune merchant

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      this, i need to find a korean hand writing teacher to teach me korean calligraphy so I can give my asiaticfu pretty notes.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        it takes about an hour to learn to read and write hangul
        to understand what its saying takes longer though, but pronunciation is extremely straightforward, probably the easiest alphabet in the world.
        it was designed in the 15th century when literacy in asia (china, japan, korea) was only like 10-15%, literacy in korea shot up to >80% in 1 generation, it was hundreds of years before china and japan achieved similar literacy rates as korea.

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          Korean is just Americanized Japanese debate me.

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            i can tell it would be a waste of time to debate you

            • 2 weeks ago
              Anonymous

              Yeah, you should probably only debate circumcised people.

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            I know bogans are professional shitposters but come on man.

            • 2 weeks ago
              Anonymous

              Koreans: nani ka?
              Japanese: that's japanese

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Why can't they just use latin letters? Korean letters don't carry any inherent meaning like Chinese/Japanese ones do.

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >Korean letters don't carry any inherent meaning

        • 3 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          Sound is not meaning.

          • 3 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            The inherent meaning is in the letters, if you can't understand that then you're not a real muslim.

            • 3 weeks ago
              Anonymous

              "tongue back shape" has no meaning.
              In Japanese ka (火) means fire, ka (可) means "possible", ka (過) means "excess", and so on.
              You write "ka" in hangul, it means absolutely nothing. It just marks a sound, it has no meaning.

              • 3 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                火 also means fire in korean, 可 means allowed, 過 means spilling oil, to leak something.

                So I don't understand your argument. Do you seriously expect children to want to use these government signage glyphs?

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                They don't have to use them.
                I merely pointed out that if Japanese or Chinese switched to latin letters their written language would use a lot of information, while Koreans switching to it would have no such loss.

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                Koreans would lose a lot, you can look at romanised korea for examples. they use ae eo and eu very commonly. that's not impacting the reading in German much but in Korean those vowels shouldn't be pronounced twice as long as normal. So their own alphabet suits them better.

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                Languages that use latin letters use vowels differently. Look at French for example, so many silent sounds.
                It's not a problem if they simply teach how to pronounce those combinations.

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                not an argument. the letters merely represent DIAPHONEMES.

                I wish linguistics was a science, but it's an art no better than other arts like origami or clay sculpture or slam poetry. sorry.

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                yeah, people often use some mix of both romanizations (the old one sucks) and it's confusing

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                It's really annoying because "eo" in my dialect is the shortest vowel. They shouldn't need TWO LETTERS omg yuck.

                I guess "everyone has their own opinion" good luck the rest of you

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                Sorry, I meant to write Japanese/Chinese would LOSE a lot of information

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                Yes.... so? Alfabets luce infawmayshun wen u right them phoneetiquitelee. same shit different donkey. the alphabetic systems are simply more advanced.

              • 3 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                to support my argument that ear is more important than eye when it comes to language, please look into japanese computer imput methods.

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                When japanese people talk to each other do they have to stop to wrtie down which "ka" they meant or do they just understand that something is permitted and not on fire?
                And if they can do that then why can't they do it with reading?
                I lead a group of lead miners.

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                to, two, too
                Homonyms are a bitch, aren't they?

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                As far as I can tell spoken Japanese is somewhat crippled compared to written Japanese. You can talk about everyday things, but its more difficult to convey complex concepts or novel ideas.

          • 3 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            vid related

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            >Sound is not meaning.
            Yes, as it's a phonetic alphabet like Latin that makes actual sense
            .. unlike Latin where the A is an upside-down cattle or sth. which was used like phonetically used hieroglyphs but made a cattle sound not in the language it was applied to and repurposed for a vowel when they were introduced into the writing-system.
            .. which is why vowels are scattered randomly in the alphabet instead of being in a group at the start or end. (like in japanese)
            The alphabet we use working does not mean it is logical .. if choosing based on logic we'd have base12 numbers and write in something similar to hangeul.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >Everything should be homogenized western crap because I say so

        It's a giant fucking meme.
        They are extremely proud of it as the "most logical writing system" because the characters are supposed to mimic the shape of the tongue while pronouncing. It's the ugliest most bugman thing I have ever heard of it. Peak soulless.

        Soulless is having all languages use the same Roman alphabet everywhere and adding diacritics because Latin's relatively simple phonology can't convey all the sounds in complex languages like Vietnamese or even English (which has a monstrosity of an orthography in lieu of diacritics).

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          If Latin alphabet isn't well-suited for fucking Vietnamese then maybe they shouldn't use it?
          I sure as fuck don't go around writing Latin in Hangul.

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            Vietnamese used to use Chunom (Chinese script) and they moved to Latin under "influence" but today they are free and neutral, anti-Latin in many cases. Yet they persist in using the alphabet. Alphabets are the superior method of lingustic communication.

            • 2 weeks ago
              Anonymous

              Most Vietnamese can't read or write using Latin or pseudo-Chinese characters so it's a moot point. Destroying their honorable monarchy was the worst thing any jungle monkies did. They're 100x worse off than they were before.

              • 2 weeks ago
                Anonymous

                Never been to Bviet Namg detected.

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Alphabets are gay and israeli. Logograms/ideograms are better because they convey ideas instead of semitic- i mean semantics

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >logograms better

        yeah for the authorities, but the layman wants to write in futhark

  2. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    vowels are intuitive and comprise half their alphabet. it used to be far more complex back when there were more jamo and hanja was a more common practice

  3. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    It's a very efficient writing system designed to fit their language like a glove

  4. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    It's one of the few writing-systems that actually make some sense.
    Basic idea is somewhat similar to visible-speech.

  5. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Meanwhile, Japan is using kindergarden versions of Chinese characters. Imagine not having your own writing system

  6. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    They should have stolen some stupid alphabet and make it even more unnecessarily complicated like Japanese?

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Japanese is an argot.
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cant_(language)

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Makes sense

  7. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Hangul is great, Hiroshi. About the only good thing Koreans ever made.

  8. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    It's a giant fucking meme.
    They are extremely proud of it as the "most logical writing system" because the characters are supposed to mimic the shape of the tongue while pronouncing. It's the ugliest most bugman thing I have ever heard of it. Peak soulless.

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      They sound like Japanese people with American accents.

  9. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Latin alphabet is the best.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >Latin alphabet is the best.
      wtf is going on with C, K and S?

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        That's English phonology. It's not fault of Latin alphabet.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Latin only fails English in one way: it can't tell apart "u" of put, from "u" of cut. But that's okay because everyone kinda has their own brain accent and then speaks the words normally. In Finland they call it puhua kirjakieltä, talking like a book.

      no language ever thought this was normal. the alphabet is just as much as guide as chinese or japanese characters.

      dear japs, translate this:
      司寿

  10. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I don't know. I hate both kimchi and sauerkraut.
    but cabbage really works in beirocks. So, I'm going with the Koran language is kinda sucky because there's no one to talk to with it but Koreans. While I had to learn German, French, Russian or Japanese for grad school.

  11. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Korean and Japanese writings are basically a discount version of Chinese characters.

  12. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    only takes a few hours to learn unlike your shit

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      It's a great advantage to Koreans, I guess, since school only takes 2 hours out of their whole lives.

  13. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >Koreans: Create alphabet and writing system based on ease and simplicity for all Korean peoples to learn.
    >Also Koreans: Tech Japanese how to write and 'gift' them with highly complex writing system.
    I get why you're upset, koji-san.

  14. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    It is only "weird" in that it is the most modern widely accepted, strictly logical writing system.
    It was designed specifically for that purpose.

  15. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Do the circles intimidate you? Instead of them being all square boxes?

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