Re: languages vs dialects

["Scott Dean" <nacspsd@acs2.acs.ncsu.edu>]

Poster: "Scott Dean" <nacspsd@acs2.acs.ncsu.edu>

> Poster: "sholt@vt.edu" <sholt@vt.edu>
>
> A Korean and a Japanese person, if they met on a street corner, most
> likely would be unable to hold a conversation with each other.  But they
> could share a newspaper or other reading material and have no trouble at
> all.  The written languages are identical.
> 

Are you sure about this?  The Korean script I have seen on signs in 
pictures of Korea (and on things like the Korean Presbyterian Church) 
is NOTICEABLY different from the kanji I saw when I was in Japan. 

-- Manus MacDhai
   Kappellenberg/Windmasters' Hill

mka
   Scott Dean
   NC State University
   Raleigh, NC  
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