'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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