'Peking' vs 'Beijing'
Harmon Seaver
hseaver at cybershamanix.com
Wed Apr 9 19:29:47 PDT 2003
On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 06:17:34PM +0100, Jim Dixon wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote:
>
> > The Japanese actually have three written languages -- hiragana, katakana and
> > kanji -- and everybody pretty much uses them all, often at the same time.
>
> These aren't languages. The first two are alphabets - or rather
> syllabaries. They go "ka ki ku ke ko ...", that is, there is a character
Ah yes, you're right, I mispoke.
Alphabets, scripts, whatever, it is pretty amazing. US kids have enough trouble
learning to read in one alphabet.
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Harmon Seaver
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