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Re: languages vs dialects
Poster: mn13189@WCUVAX1.WCU.EDU
On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Scott Dean wrote:
> > 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.
I think what was being referred to were the various Chinese languages and
dialcets. If I remember right, Cantonese and Mandarin use the same
script, but two speakers would not be able to have a phone conversation
(although they could write a letter to each other).
Aye,
Eogan
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