[KS] Revised Romanization Detailed Guidelines?

[Dennis Lee]

Oh quick question for any Sinologists out there: Were there any parallels
to the transition from Wade-Giles to pinyin? It seems like that was a far
smoother process. I'm just curious.

On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 10:36 AM, Dennis Lee <dennislee.edu at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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:
>>
>> QUOTE:
>> -----
>> -3. Oneureun nalssiga jota (RR)
>> -4. Oneul eun nalssi ga jota
>>     (most probably, National Library of Korea version of RR)
>> -----
>>
>> 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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