suzmccarth wrote:

>
> --- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...>
> wrote:
> > suzmccarth wrote:
> >
> > > Insup Taylor wrote about the importance of the Hangul design in
> > > literacy practise. I will check her article tonight.
> >
> > Please consult any review of any book Insup Taylor has been involved
> in.
>
> Yes, I read one and I see what you mean. However, allow me this quote
> which does give some historical background. It is difficult to get
> this kind of perpsective from anyone else. I do read that Hangul is
> now taught as a syllabary so I think she is accurate on that. Since
> Hangul has been discussed and Taylor mentioned by her compatriot last
> year, I think we owe her this much.
>
> "Han'gul, being an alphabetic syllabary, can be taught as an alphabet
> or as a syllabary. Let us survey how it has been taught throughout its
> 500-year history.
>
> In the 16th century, some years after its creation, Han'gul was seldom
> taught directly but was indirectly acquired while learning Hancha, as
> it was used to give the sounds and meanings of Hancha. In the 19th
> century, women, children, and laborers picked up Han'gul, or acquired
> it without much teaching, from a Han'gul syllable chart (table 13-4)
> that might be hung on a wall. ...

Since there are thousands of possible syllable blocks, what can this
wall chart look like?? Can you describe table 13-4? (Have you said what
book you're looking at?)
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...