[KS] two formal questions - Japanese/Korean

[Mark Morris]

Hello Frank,

In writing Japanese names in kanji, we wouldn't leave spaces anywhere. 
Same holds for titles, though in romanisation the practice of only 
capitalising a)first noun/nominal and b)thereafter only 'proper' nouns 
and names [sort of a la francaise] isn't always consistent.

There are spacing rules combined with punctuation for writing Japanese 
that many foreigners never get the hang of. I am, alas, one of them.

cheers

Mark

Mark Morris
Trinity College, Cambridge
(& expat American)



On 2014-04-15 19:23, Frank Hoffmann wrote:
> Dear All:
> 
> These are two very minor small questions, and I hesitated posting it.
> But then, where else to ask?
> 
> (a)
> Is there any rule among Japanologists (in the U.S., that is, in Europe
> all are anarchists anyway), for the word (name) division of Japanese
> names in Kanji?
> Example:
>   Hidemichi Tanaka 田中英道
>   Murai Osamu 村井紀
> or:
>   Hidemichi Tanaka 田中 英道
>   Murai Osamu 村井 紀
> I see both variations. Always wondered about that, never asked.
> 
> 
> (b)
> A similar formal question, this time for both Japanese and Korean:
> In titles of articles or books, when I have something like this ...
>  (J)  Kanji no kenkyū_ 漢字の研究
>  (K)  Hanjaŭi yŏn'gu (or: Hanja ŭi yŏn'gu) 漢字의研究
> ... I see that more and more Korean publishers do insert a space there 
> (
> 漢字의 研究) while Japanese still do not. My question (again, this is
> about the rendering of the original script, not the transcription): do
> we ignore however this appears in books or magazines and just insert a
> space in any case, and is this done the same way for Japanese and
> Korean (this is what I did so far), or are there any rules for this.
> Are there any such "spacing rules" for Korean and for Japanese in Japan
> and South Korea?
> 
> As I warned -- these are just minor questions. Nothing exciting.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Frank