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And then you have Korean. 오늘 학교에 가기 싫다 (I don’t want to go to school today) Hangeul is a syllabary so anyone can read it, just like Latin. It was specifically
by andrewzah 7y ago
And then you have Korean.
오늘 학교에 가기 싫다 (I don’t want to go to school today)
Hangeul is a syllabary so anyone can read it, just like Latin. It was specifically designed in response to peasants not being able to read Chinese hanzi.
Things like the subject and topic can be and is omitted when it’s superfluous. (The above sentence omits the subject and subject particle. There is no topic here). English almost always needs to specify the subject, asides from very casual speech/slang. Korean, like english, doesn’t need to specify gender of nouns, and it also doesn’t need “a” or “the” markers. The location particle above could be dropped too.
However Korean does have complex honorifics and formality conjugations, which typically get longer the more formal/polite it is. Above we have the plain or dictionary form, which is usually the shortest form as well.
- BiteCode_dev 7y agoHow would you express "would like"? "I don’t want to go" and "I would like not to go" express different things. One is expressing opposition right now, the other one is expressing desire or even a request, potentially while the action is already engaged. The first one is definitive, the second one is wishful thinking or negotiation.
- andrewzah 7y agoI don’t see any practical difference other than using more polite, indirect language. The effect of “would like not to” is the same in the end with opposition. I don’t think there’s a 1:1 translation of “would like not to”. I’d probably say something like “it’d be good if I did / didn’t do X”. Which is less direct than the equivalent “I do / don’t want to do X”.
- andrewzah 7y agoActually 가기(가) is the topic here unless I’m mistaken. I wrote this too fast last night.