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Originally Posted by GranFire
and since it is not possible to translate a pictoral alphabet like the Hangul exactly into english (or other related languages) how it's spelled is not germaine to the discussion. Anybody who says other wise....well let's not go there.
And how dodge comes up with 17 as number of types for sparring... ^_^
I bet he has a bridge he's trying to unload as well!
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Sounds to me like that - Karate For Kids - education you got is causing some confusion for you. Hehehe!
Hangul is not a "pictorial" alphabet. Not even close. Hangul is 100% based on sounds, just like the Latin alphabet. Gee, you must be thinking of Chinese, those Korean looking people that live North and West of Seoul.
I did not come up with the number 17 for types of sparring, Kukkiwon did. Of course, all those Chinese looking people at Kukkiwon must not know what they are talking about, since their Hangul is all picture letters (Ideographic), right?
ROFLMAO!
http://www.edgetranslation.net/korean1.htm
Korean has 42,000,000 speakers in South Korea and 67,019,690 speakers worldwide.
The Korean language is the official language for both north and South Korea.
The Korean language is mainly written using Hangul.
Hangul is a phonemic alphabet organized into syllabic blocks. Each block contains between two and five of the twenty four Hangul letters. Hangul has fourteen consonants and ten vowels.
Hangul means 'Great script' in Archaic Korean and 'Korean script' in modern Korean.
Unlike the Chinese writing system Hangul is not an Ideographic system.
Modern Korean, unlike Chinese and Japanese, is written with spaces between words.
Korean is usually written in rows from left to right, top to bottom.
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