Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)

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From: Randall Atkinson
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 02:11

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In article <1ii0n7INN6ig@life.ai.mit.edu> glenn@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu (Glenn A. Adams) writes:

>I'm afraid this is incorrect.  Ideographic characters in Chinese, Japanese,
>Korean, and Vietnamese (chu+" no>m va! chu+" ha'n) *are not* equivalent
>to words.  

Glenn is quite right, as usual.  

  But to prevent misunderstanding, folks should realise that for the
last several hundred years Vietnamese has been written using only
romanised letters and a small number of diacritical marks (Quoc Ngu as
distinguished from the former Chu Nom scheme).  Modern Vietnamese is
not an ideogrammatic language at all.

Ran
atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil

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