From: John Cowan
Message: 2453
Date: 2004-06-08
> Linear writing is called "p'uro ssugi (take apart and write)" inAgreed.
> contrast with the usual "moa ssugi (gather together and write)". As
> far as Korean writing is concerned, writing linearly or in syllable
> blocks is an orthographic issue, not a typological question. That is
> why Korean writing is not a syllabary but an alphabet.
> The fact that theThis argues beyond the data. It may merely demonstrate the mighty
> proposal for linear writing did not really go anywhere--in spite of the
> several orthographic reforms Korean writing has undergone--demonstrates
> the efficiency of writing in syllable blocks.