<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:14px"><div><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Dear colleagues,</span><br></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv4292182724"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">I'd like to ask your help with language play in Korean (and other languages you may know, too).</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The morning radio show in USA, <i>Weekend Edition Saturday</i>, on October 18, 2014 included this story, "<span style="font-weight: bold;">Chinese Find Number URLs Easier Than Letters</span>."</div><div style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="yui_3_16_0_1_1413763378009_8964">Transcript at <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=357153450" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">www.npr.org/templates/ transcript/transcript.php?
storyId=357153450</a></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">When I was in Japan, I can remember "kotoba asobi" (suji asobi?) in telephone numbers, too. </div><div style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="yui_3_16_0_1_1413763378009_8967">I am curious about Korean language play.</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Please fill in some examples you have seen. And ask your students, friends and family to contribute, too!</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a rel="nofollow"
target="_blank" href="http://goo.gl/forms/ok0ZFP3nzv" style="color:rgb(17, 85, 204);">http://goo.gl/forms/ok0ZFP3nzv</a></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Hit "submit" and then view the growing number of examples contributed by others.</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=-=-=-=-=-=-= Here are the opening lines of the radio story transcript:</div><div style="color: rgb(34,
34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-style: italic;">A lot of Chinese websites seem to have a different form of URLs, or web addresses. They use numbers, not names. <br>Long numbers, too, seemingly at random. McDonald's website isn't spelled McDonald's, it's <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://4008-517-517.cn/" style="color:rgb(17, 85, 204);">4008-517-517.cn</a>. <br><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="yui_3_16_0_1_1413763378009_8977"><span style="font-style: italic;">A dating website is <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://5201314.com/" style="color:rgb(17, 85, 204);">5201314.com</a>. Why? Christopher
Beam, staff writer with The New Republic, who lives in Beijing <br>wondered and that's when he began to notice that the numbers are hardly random.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">or listen to the broadcast version,</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.npr.org/2014/10/18/357153450/chinese-find-number-urls-easier-than-letters" style="color:rgb(17, 85, 204);">http://www.npr.org/2014/10/18/ 357153450/chinese-find-number- urls-easier-than-letters</a></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sincerely,</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Guven Peter Witteveen, sjmi@hotmail dotcom<br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/anthroview" style="color:rgb(17, 85, 204);"><img
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