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- From: mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
- Subject: Re: Cleanicode
- Message-ID: <2790@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 09:35:37 GMT
- References: <C138zr.r3@poel.juice.or.jp> <1jiotjINNj5q@life.ai.mit.edu> <2179@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
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- In article <2179@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
- djbpitt+@pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum) writes:
-
- >LGC (Latin/Greek/Cyrillic) are clearly distinct culturally, although
- >opponents of Han unification have argued the same for CJK characters. I
- >find the argument more persuasive for LGC than for CJK, but my
- >information about CJK is entirely second-hand and this may be an area
- >that is subjective enough to allow reasonable people to disagree.
-
- LGC are used mostly by Indo-European languaes. They share the single
- culture, the European culture. They even share the major religion,
- Chiritianity.
-
- On the other hand, the grammer of Chinese language is totally different
- from JK languages, while JK languages are similar just as English and
- German are similar.
-
- But, as JK languages are so special, the origin of JK languages is yet
- unknown.
-
- In Japan, Shintoism and Buddhism are the two major religions. In Korea,
- Confucianism is dominant. In China, you can find co-existence of
- Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, Communism and several other religions.
-
- That is, while LGC are all alike, there are clear cultural difference
- between CJK.
-
- >Finally, LGC are graphically similar in some places and graphically
- >divergent in others. <A> is everyone's favorite example, where all three
- >scripts have similar form and function (although G lc <a> differs from
- >LC lc <a> graphically). Things get messier one character over, however,
-
- With Han characters, you can find thouthands of messy cases.
-
- >If we were to unify, how would we do it?
-
- Don't do that.
-
- Masataka Ohta
-