On Wednesday 05 February 2003 07:29, John Cowan wrote:

>Still there at http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/ASCII.html

Thanks! I do recall an earlier version of that document. Eric S.
Raymond, the [esr] in the URL, is an interesting fellow, who might
be called the philosopher of the Open Source software movement, of
which GNU/Linux is the best known example.

>Called "haplology" by the learned, and "haplogy" by haplologites.

Thank you! This reminds me of "diploid" and "haploid", terms from
biology. It's nice to have a formal higher education;
self-education after high school leaves big gaps. (I was at
Princeton for half a year; took almost 50 years to figure out what
went wrong.)

>Korean is an alphabet that groups its letters into clumps.

It seems, iirc, that the jamo is essentially an alphabet.
Why does Korean never become as complicated as some Hanzi/Kanji?

Thanks, again, John. I expect to learn lots more here with time...

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