[KS] Revised Romanization Detailed Guidelines?

Junghee Lee dilj at pdx.edu
Fri Dec 9 20:56:59 EST 2016


Yes.
That is what we need.

Best,

Junghee Lee

On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 5:39 PM, Dennis Lee <dennislee.edu at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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Junghee Lee
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School of Art and Design
Portland State University
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