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You can pick nits off of that nit, too. Korean can use a mix of phonetic writing and Chinese characters, just like Japanese does. Its usage is dwindling rapidly
by mumblemumble 7y ago
You can pick nits off of that nit, too. Korean can use a mix of phonetic writing and Chinese characters, just like Japanese does. Its usage is dwindling rapidly, but people writing software arguably still have to be prepared to handle this kind of text.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_mixed_script https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_mixed_script
- tasogare 7y agoI recall opening some book in Korean pertaining to linguistics: almost every words had its hanja version in-between parenthesis. This was quite ridiculous: the mixed-script version would have been almost twice shorter, and the content was not understandable without hanja anyway.