featural Re: Miscellanea (was RE: Pronouncing "W" (UUas: Re: "UU" s

Marco Cimarosti wrote:

> > (Does Korean consist of alphabetic logograms? I think both terms are
> > somewhat wrong.)
>
> They are certainly wrong used together to describe Korean Hangul!
>
> You could rather call the Korean typographic units "alphabetic
> syllabograms". Some modern grammatologist call Hangul a "featural" writing
> system, but the reason for this term is still quite obscure to me.

Geoffrey Sampson is quite obscure to many people. "Featural" is correct
for Korean as far as it goes, but is much more useful for shorthands and
iconic phonetic transcriptions like Visible Speech.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...