[KS] QUERY> Opinions on lexicographical/orthographical point

[Werner Sasse]

Dear Charles,

in my opinion the version  [ko-hg] 양 (orth = 량) when in initial position, which reflects the official pronunciation in S-Kor would be the best, because most entries in the internet seem to follow this practice.

As a sideline, which may or may not be of interest: As the N-Kor official pronunciation keeps the initial riul, I have come to the habit to keep the initial riul in romanisation when the source is from N-Kor., in order to indicate the source language (and source culture)...

With best wishes for you and your wonderful work, 
Werner Sasse
 
> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:20:40 +0900
> From: cmuller-lst at jj.em-net.ne.jp
> To: koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws
> Subject: [KS] QUERY> Opinions on lexicographical/orthographical point
> 
> Dear Koreanists,
> 
> Some of you know that I have been editing a pair of online 
> dictionaries for East Asian studies for some time now. We've been 
> running dictionaries off of the same backend framework and 
> functionality for the last ten years, since Michael Beddow[1] first 
> created the Perl/XSLT infrastructure to deliver the data through a 
> search engine.
> 
> After ten years with basically the same infrastructure, I am happy to 
> tell you that we are in the midst of a major overhaul of the entire 
> system, and that we expect to be able to announce this much improved 
> version within a couple of weeks. I will of course make an 
> announcement here at that time.
> 
> In the process of getting the new search engine to work efficiently 
> with Korean, Michael has forced me to go through the Korean 
> pronunciations and clean up the inconsistencies and errors as much as 
> possible. While the situation is not perfect yet (sometimes my head 
> swims in assimilation rules...) it is certainly far better than it 
> was a few weeks ago.
> 
> One issue has arisen, for which I would appreciate the opinions from 
> any members of this learned group who might interested. This is:
> 
> For a long time, we were handling the presentation of phonemes 
> beginning with _rieul_ ᄅ in a variety of inconsistent ways. For example:
> 
> This:
> 
> [ko-hg] 량 (양)
> 
> or this:
> 
> [ko-hg] 량/양
> 
> or else reversed, and also just one or the other. The problem was that 
> this was handled in the XML node (I'm simplifying here) as <pron>량/양 
> </pron>, etc, which made the node difficult to search.
> 
> We have now changed this to
> 
> <pron initial="양">량</pron>
> 
> ...which the user sees in HTML output as:
> 
> [ko-hg] 량 (initial = 양)
> 
> However, it was suggested to me by a colleague that it may in fact be 
> better to put the actual pronunciation in the main node, and move the 
> orthographic reading to attribute status, thus resulting in:
> 
> 
> [ko-hg] 양 (orth = 량)
> 
> Do any learned scholars on the list have an opinion about this?
> 
> I think that the major Hanja dictionaries do something closer to the 
> first option, but that need not be determinative.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Chuck
> 
> -----------------------
> 
> Note:
> 
> [1] In the process, Michael has become a fanatic about the Korean 
> language and culture, having basically taught himself to speak, read, 
> and write by downloading soap operas, studying Korean through the 
> Internet, and so forth. So much of his energy has been focused on 
> getting the Korean aspect of the dictionaries to work well.
> 
> 
> ---------------------------
> A. Charles Muller
> 
> Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology
> Faculty of Letters
> University of Tokyo
> 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku
> Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
> 
> Web Site: Resources for East Asian Language and Thought
> http://www.acmuller.net
> 
> <acmuller[at]jj.em-net.ne.jp>
> 
 		 	   		  
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