[KS] Revised Romanization Detailed Guidelines?

[Dennis Lee]

For fun, we should all go Yale. We'll have "y"s and "e"s everywhere and
make the linguists happy.

On a serious note, I actually learned the Yale Romanization system first
from Gari Ledyard over e-mail almost 2 decades ago. It wasn't until I
started my grad program at UCLA that I learned CCK (to follow James'
suggestion). Now here I am in Korea trying to master a third one. Good
times!

Best,
Dennis

On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 8:29 AM, Frank Hoffmann <hoffmann at koreanstudies.com>
wrote:

> Two brief note regarding Hyoungbae Lee's last note:
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> -3. Oneureun nalssiga jota (RR)
> -4. Oneul eun nalssi ga jota
>     (most probably, National Library of Korea version of RR)
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> That would be yet another bad "handling" of RR. The ONLY advantage of
> RR oder McC-R that I can see is that it can be machine generated by the
> simplest means, which makes a huge difference for e.g. cataloging
> books, but also -- more important! -- in industry, administration, and
> international relations. Once this kind of -- in my opinion obscure --
> stops are introduced as they exist in McC-R (just as obscure there),
> this advantage will be gone. The simple result will be just one more
> rule in existence to be disregarded by the majority of people.
> Why do I call this "obscure" -- apart from the just made technical
> argument? Because transcription systems should be there to emulate a
> language in another script known to the reader. What sense does it make
> to introduce new orthographic rules (about word divisions) in a
> transcription system (except for writing systems that don't know stops,
> such as classical Chinese).
>
> Frank
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