RE: Hangul (was Re: Réf. : RE: [MUD-Dev] Mass customization in MM***s)

[David Kennerly]

Korean is the easiest alphabet in the world to learn.  It's
phonetic.  With a few exceptions, it's logical and sounds exactly
like it's written.  Each one of those blocks contain King Sejong
created it around the 1500s in order to improve literacy rate,
because Chinese language is too hard.  In many people's opinion, he
(or whoever he's taking credit from) did a good job.  It has nuances
too.  It's vowels have yin or yang, each one is male or female.
Some of the consonants are ideograms related to the position of the
mouth to make the syllable.

The standard Korean keyboard map is intuitive.  Korean has more like
40 common characters when practically used, so all can be typed on a
western keyboard using only the letter keys and the shift key.  The
shift key combos are intuitive.  If you wanted to try the keyboard
map, you could try AsianSuite (http://www.unionway.com), or install
Korean language system if your OS supports it.  However, Korean
language, beyond the alphabet, is a monster for a Westerner to learn
(and vice versa), because it shares no roots.  Western language has
an alien philosophy, grammar, and alphabet from Korean.

Incidentally, I'm ending a four month business stay in Korea, and a
four and a half year job with a Korean company, tomorrow.  For the
last four months, I've seen and typed a lot of those funny symbols.
:)

David



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