Current Events > Did you know that HANGUL the Korean system of writing is the most advanced ever

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Hangul was invented by a genius king of Korea during the Chosun dynasty - King Sejong.

He borrowed from Chinese character strokes to invent a whole new system of writing - HANGUL (literally Korean writing)

Imagine having western heritage and knowing your writing system is based on something from further back than AD1500. What archaic and outdated systems is that lmfao
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They're starving so I hope they can eat their advanced language
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You look really smart when you mistake North Korea as the only country there.
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Bok_Choi posted...

You look really smart when you mistake North Korea as the only country there.

It will be after they go nuts and nuke their neighbor
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while koreans were warring with Japan and creating languages, western civilizations lingering in ignorance and all learning was concentrated in few missions with monks
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Language needs to be simple.
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What's simpler than a writing system that effortlessly combines vocal harmonies and chinese-inspired script to produce any sound they need to?
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armandro posted...

Language needs to be simple.

Hangul is extremely simple to learn
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KiwiTerraRizing posted...

They're starving so I hope they can eat their advanced language

gg no re
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its just chinese with more circles
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Fossil posted...

Bok_Choi posted...

You look really smart when you mistake North Korea as the only country there.

It will be after they go nuts and nuke their neighbor

Implying America won't glass Poyonyang for that.
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billcom6 posted...

its just chinese with more circles

LOL hardly

Korean is made up of consonants and vowels that can be mixed and matched to create any sound you want

It's a genius system
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I really do like the syllable blocks.
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You already made this topic closet racist
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BlueMage279 posted...

Hangul is super easy to learn. It took me about 3 hours to learn the essentials and be able to read (slowly).

Serious mode

When reading Korean is actually important to remember that you're saying individual characters that make up words, not entire words themselves.

What this means is what you see the Korean for dog, "kangaji" don't say it just like how it's read here, kangaji
but it should be broken into three distinct sounds to create word "phrase" so to speak "kang-a-ji"
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It's actually 1 syllable per err... clump of letters. I dunno if there's a word for that in English.

Even as long as I lived here, there are still a lot of things I'd rather say in Korean because it just works better.

Korean is considered one of 6 or so languages that is the hardest to learn though. It's because the grammar requires intuition to a certain degree
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like I mean you guys still wonder why i make topics like this

KiwiTerraRizing posted...

They're starving so I hope they can eat their advanced language

billcom6 posted...

its just chinese with more circles

It's to identify closet racist cases like this
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Bok_Choi posted...

like I mean you guys still wonder why i make topics like this

KiwiTerraRizing posted...

They're starving so I hope they can eat their advanced language

billcom6 posted...

its just chinese with more circles

It's to identify closet racist cases like this

Like I identified you?
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According to who?

Also, even the English language we are writing right now is considered modern. A couple hundred years ago, even the printed language looked different.

You know calling me a closet racist doesn't make me one right

meanwhile those two people I quoted were just caught minimizing Koreans to North Korea, calling them all starving, and disrespecting the Korean language and implying that Korean culture cannot be exclusive of Chinese (the conflation of Asian cultures as one)
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Bok_Choi posted...

You know calling me a closet racist doesn't make me one right

meanwhile those two people I quoted were just caught minimizing Koreans to North Korea, calling them all starving, and disrespecting the Korean language and implying that Korean culture cannot be exclusive of Chinese (the conflation of Asian cultures as one)

Calling you one doesn't make you one

You are one because you are one.
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Dash_Harber posted...

According to who?

Ask any linguist

Korean is the most advanced system of writing, newer and far superior to outdated and nonsensical writing systems of the old west

Imagine basing your writing system off of a prehistoric wedges on tablet system
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Yeah bok isn't a closet racist.
He's more vocal and open about it tbh

Dash_Harber posted...

According to who?

Also, even the English language we are writing right now is considered modern. A couple hundred years ago, even the printed language looked different.

Wut. Hangul is like a millenium younger than English. Hangul was made with peasants in mind, that even the common folks could both read and speak a language, but to increase understanding, it was largely based off of Chinese characters. It's far more efficient, especially in terms of space, compared to english, and it doesn't require nearly as much memorization to read vs Chinese or Japanese
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Nobody on CE has been able to explain why I am racist btw

protip: because i'm not
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Bok_Choi posted...

Dash_Harber posted...

According to who?

Ask any linguist

Korean is the most advanced system of writing, newer and far superior to outdated and nonsensical writing systems of the old west

Imagine basing your writing system off of a prehistoric wedges on tablet system

I guess I'll have to.

What is with all the troll-bait topics lately Bok? You going through something?

why are koreans so fucking elitist?
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Dash_Harber posted...

What is with all the troll-bait topics lately Bok? You going through something?

I'm bored.
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legendarylemur posted...

It's actually 1 syllable per err... clump of letters. I dunno if there's a word for that in English.

Even as long as I lived here, there are still a lot of things I'd rather say in Korean because it just works better.

Korean is considered one of 6 or so languages that is the hardest to learn though. It's because the grammar requires intuition to a certain degree

A system that has one syllable per symbol is a syllabary.
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What makes a system more advanced than other, and how does that translate into better?
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What's wrong with being racist? Koreans are super racist, but foreigners love visiting there, and they're treated really well. Ok, maybe if you're Indian, you actually might be treated with extreme caution LOL
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Bok_Choi posted...

Dash_Harber posted...

What is with all the troll-bait topics lately Bok? You going through something?

I'm bored.

Ah, in that case; ENGLISH NUMBER 1! HANGUL NUMBER LAST!

WalkingLobsters posted...

why are koreans so fucking elitist?

Wow casual racism ITT
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legendarylemur posted...

Koreans are super racist,

my mom actually said to bury her first if i want to marry a black girl lmao

so terrible
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What's wrong CE?
Are you afraid to acknowledge that maybe the system in power isn't the best?

You certain people have always been insecure about your social power
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Hangeul as a writing system is excellent.

However, I have a few issues with some aspects of it - mostly (and I can't use hangeul on here) to do with 4 block syllables where not all sounds are pronounced.

Chicken (dak) has an extra and unneeded character (r/l - in this case l), and also many (man-hi) isn't fully pronounced (the h sound isn't hit).

That's my only concern, and there are other examples.

Otherwise, hangeul can be learned in a day and the way it's used in spoken language can be quite beautiful.

Source... I lived in Korea for around 6 years, have an MSc in Applied Linguistics, am now doing a PhD in Linguistics. I also lecture at a university... You... Uh... Wanted a linguist, yeah?
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Banana_Mana posted...

Hangeul as a writing system is excellent.

However, I have a few issues with some aspects of it - mostly (and I can't use hangeul on here) to do with 4 block syllables where not all sounds are pronounced.

Chicken (dak) has an extra and unneeded character (r/l - in this case l), and also many (man-hi) isn't fully pronounced (the h sound isn't hit).

That's my only concern, and there are other examples.

Otherwise, hangeul can be learned in a day and the way it's used in spoken language can be quite beautiful.

Source... I lived in Korea for around 6 years, have an MSc in Applied Linguistics, am now doing a PhD in Linguistics. I also lecture at a university... You... Uh... Wanted a linguist, yeah?

my favorite is when koreans try to explain the difference between the "eh/ae" vowels

"one is EH and the other one is EH okay"
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Bok_Choi posted...

Banana_Mana posted...

Hangeul as a writing system is excellent.

However, I have a few issues with some aspects of it - mostly (and I can't use hangeul on here) to do with 4 block syllables where not all sounds are pronounced.

Chicken (dak) has an extra and unneeded character (r/l - in this case l), and also many (man-hi) isn't fully pronounced (the h sound isn't hit).

That's my only concern, and there are other examples.

Otherwise, hangeul can be learned in a day and the way it's used in spoken language can be quite beautiful.

Source... I lived in Korea for around 6 years, have an MSc in Applied Linguistics, am now doing a PhD in Linguistics. I also lecture at a university... You... Uh... Wanted a linguist, yeah?

my favorite is when koreans try to explain the difference between the "eh/ae" vowels

"one is EH and the other one is EH okay"

Can be hard for non-Koreans to pronounce the vowels. The hardest for me was the EU sound in komapsEUpnida (the _ sound... Wish we could type in hangeul).

Became a lot easier when I stopped using Seoul based studybooks to practise and went full with my Busan accent.

Hard to describe sounds in any language though. My biggest annoyance is American teachers here - they tend to teach the vowel a sound the same as the vowel o sound... Aa is not the same as Oo!
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Yet you use English as your primary language.
Fascinating.

Real talk, English is freaking hard to master due to homonyms, the many exceptions, borrowed words, etc.
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St0rmFury posted...

Real talk, English is freaking hard to master due to homonyms, the many exceptions, borrowed words, etc.

Most languages are hard.

Articles make English really difficult for many as well.

Spoken Korean uses a lot of quite abstract idiomatic expressions - I find that really hard to follow at times.
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Bok_Choi posted...

legendarylemur posted...

Koreans are super racist,

my mom actually said to bury her first if i want to marry a black girl lmao

so terrible

does she have a gamefaqs acc? id like to send her a friend request
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Nastaliq > Hangul tbh
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If only their grammar was just as simple as their writing system amirite? I've dabbled in Korean in the past so I'm able to read it (albeit slowly) still don't know what most of the words mean though unless it's a Japanese or English loanword.

I'm currently learning Japanese, if I ever get to an advanced enough level I would like to also learn Mandarin, or even go back to Korean. Asian languages are fun.

@St0rmFury posted...

Real talk, English is freaking hard to master due to homonyms, the many exceptions, borrowed words, etc.

I can't think of any language that's easy to master.
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