[KS] Re: romanization '99

[sangoak]

Dear Henny,

Strictly speaking it is rather digraphs (ui or uy) than compound vowels
[u'i] or [u'j]( ' is an approximated mark to a breve), since we are
talking about spelling rather than sound system. As to digraphs we have
problem areas around ¤Ã,¤Ì,¤Ñ,¤À,¤Ä, etc. For instance, ¤Ã : eo, au, and
simply e ; ¤Ì : wu, oo ; ¤Ñ : eu. Many suggestions are welcome on this
issue under the condition that we need two (a set): one for pronouncing
transcription, and the other for transliteration. I personally prefer
the same choice of letters between two. You may also extend this
discussion to consonants for two.

Yours,

Sang-Oak


adam&eve at henny-savenije.demon.nl wrote:

> Dear Sang-Oak
>
> What about compound vowels, which are (in my opinion) also unique. For
>
> instance ¾È¿µ Áø (the name of my wife) Which can be written as An
> Young Jin
> as opposed to ä  Choi ¿ì  Uh  Àº    Eun     ¿Ë     Ong. Personally I
> always used these kind of transcriptions when transcribing the names
> of my
> students (if they didn't have one yet) It's a bit hard for me to
> explain
> this fully with Unionway, since it tends to do weird things to the
> roman
> alphabet when it's used to long. But I always used two vowels for each
>
> Korean vowel if I saw no other way. And most of the foreigners could
> completely understand those transcriptions as well. (except for a
> Dutchmen
> I¡¡met who insisted that the name of my son was pronounced like
> Benyamin
> and the name of his wife also with the y where in the transcriptions
> it
> shows a J). I know it's not a one to one system but it's unambiguous.
> And
> last not but not least Computer can be adjusted to the use of
> omicrons. I
> would suggest to omit the l in Lee altogether. I think it came in with
> the
> knowledge of the Chinese alphabet. BTW the Dutch use many compound
> vowels
> as well to express words which would otherwise not exist. They go even
> as
> far as three vowels in a row. e.g. in mooi (beautifull) in expressing
> dialects we go even further with omicrons and all. The word with the
> most
> consonants in a row is angstschreeuw (cry out of fear). You will have
> to
> hear it to be able to transcribe it though in Korean the closed it
> would
> get is ¾Ó ¤µ ¤¼ ¤µ ¤¡ ·¹
>
> On  my transcription of Dutch you will have to examine the archives of
>
> Korean studies
> hope this helps
>
> Henny
>
> At 09:41 AM 5/11/99 , sangoak wrote:
> >Dear Henny,
> >
> >It is really good to hear from you again.
> >As for using q (plus f, v, w, x & z) for the Korean transliteration,
> >there is
> >already a proposal as follows.
> >
> >Examples: űرâ(the Korean national flag): Thxgwggi   Àü¶ó (the name
> of the
> >South-western province): Jvnla
> >
> >I personally do not like to take this kind of economy-oriented but
> >ugly-looking transliteration system as a common measure. One can
> fiddle
> >with these unused keys but we can do better without them.
> >
> >Yours,
> >
> >Sang-Oak
> >
>
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>
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