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> Hangul can be composed from smaller blocks Not “can be”, “is”. Hangul was designed, it’s alphabetic and morpho-syllabic features were intentional.
by masklinn 3y ago
> Hangul can be composed from smaller blocks
Not “can be”, “is”. Hangul was designed, it’s alphabetic and morpho-syllabic features were intentional.
- arp242 3y agoWhat is even the point of pedantic "well, duh" comments like this? "English {can be,is} written using the Latin character set" "The symbol 'e' {can be,is} used as a vowel" "Italian {can be,is} spoken in Rome" "Python {can be,is} used to program a computer" "A car {can be,is} used to drive on the road"
- smallnix 3y agoBecause not everyone knows Hangul and could learn something wrong.
- Asraelite 3y agoBut it's not even strictly correct from a technical point of view. In Unicode, Hangul syllables can either be encoded directly as a single codepoint, or composed from multiple codepoints each representing a single jamo. One could conceivably devise a Morse code encoding that simply uses the Unicode codepoints of the syllables. It would be a bad way to do it, but it's an option. Composition isn't a hard requirement for Hangul encodings.