[KS] Romanization systems

Frank Hoffmann hoffmann at koreaweb.ws
Tue Apr 10 15:51:34 EDT 2007


>Yang ban (æÁ¼ð/®’î«)
>
>Totally unambiguous. and if i want to know what 
>that means i can look it up and if i want to 
>know if that "yang" is the same as another 
>"yang" i can even know that too.


Kevin, "Yang ban" is also pretty unambiguous if 
you use the correct transcription -- not two 
words but one, and not capitalized either. Sure, 
there is also yangban with the meaning both 
sites, both ways, but that is used rather seldom, 
and if looking at the semantics of its use you 
would always know. In cases where there are rare 
or medieval terms used -- a good example are 
'shaman' texts/narrations -- most scholars have 
since ever listed the han'gûl and/or hanja in the 
glossary.

Regards,
Frank

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Frank Hoffmann
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