Wednesday 07 May 2003

From one enthusiastic dabbler to another

Stavros admits:

I’ve been promising for over a year now to write a piece about the Korean language and alphabet, and this may have me riled enough to actually do it.

Time to shit or get off the pot, my Canadian friend. I’ve been waiting for over a year now for your essay about the Korean language and alphabet, which has always intrigued and mystified me.

Here’s a deal: the recent conversation triggered by your Linguistic Relativism and Korean post has encouraged me to consider writing a series of posts about the Japanese language—mainly as a means of clarifying my own thinking on the subject. So, if you show me yours, I’ll show you mine.

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Deal, amigo.

Er, unless I get distracted again.

No, no, seriously. I'll get to it sooner rather than later, now that I've got some info from glome.org (http://www.glome.org/000126.html) on how to hack MT to show Hangul (or Japanese etc) without using images...

Posted by: wonderchicken on 7 May 2003 at 12:23 AM

I just followed a trackback from one of your posts to Trevor's site and read his absolutely excellent post. I've asked him to elaborate on the procedure for configuring MT to use Unicode encoding.

I'll look forward to your Korean essay(s).

Posted by: Jonathon on 7 May 2003 at 12:28 AM

Me too. I'm starting to think I should get around to learning hangul, since it's so easy. Then I could use Korean dictionaries, which means I could *buy* Korean dictionaries... (*shudder*) Oh well, if the bookshelf collapses, it collapses.

Posted by: language hat on 7 May 2003 at 06:46 AM

> Time to shit or get off the pot

Apropos of the context in which I remember you, Jonathon, first being on the receiving end of this phrase, I must point out that my Mac renders the Japanese and Korean characters just fine.

Posted by: andrew on 8 May 2003 at 04:03 PM

Andrew, those characters will render OK on any platform -- even on a Mac (heh!) -- because the text is actually an image.

It would save me a lot of time and energy if I could use Unicode to render the actual Japanese text instead of laboriously creating pictures of the text in Photoshop.

Posted by: Jonathon Delacour on 8 May 2003 at 04:57 PM

This discussion is now closed. My thanks to everyone who contributed.

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