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 […]

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https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=72637&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=womens-script-wins-in-the-end

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Authors:

Victor Mair

Date tagged:

01/19/2026, 16:50

Date published:

01/19/2026, 07:56