[KS] Re: pinyin system and Korean romanization

[Ross King]

>King's reaction ...  Foreign specialists can do little more than accept what
>is ultimately designed, not all that unpalatable, and follow their own
>route for specialist applications.


Hmm. I think this is pretty much what I ended up saying in my longer posting.

>And one should be more circumspect
>before characterizing the Chinese script as "beastly and inefficient".

If I remember correctly, Chinese commentators on the Chinese script have
said far worse. And by comparison with hangul vis a vis Korean, I think the
terms are not so inaccurate.


Ross King
Associate Professor of Korean
UBC




%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%