Women's script wins in the end
Language Log 2026-01-19
Summary:
Compared to the previous Julesy presentation, "This might be the most hated film in Korea" (see "Hangul and Buddhism" [1/16/26]), today's video is tame, but the consequences of what she describes — the advent of a phonetic script to replace a logographic / morphosyllabic script — were profound. Let's face it: Chinese characters / sinographs […]