Yes exactly, "try[ing] to use [a] premodern […] ortography" is not a valid reason for a new Wikipedia.
Am Di., 9. März 2021 um 12:29 Uhr schrieb Phake Nick <[email protected]>: > > > On 2021-03-08 Mon 10:38, MF-Warburg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It seems to me that this should be rejected: >> >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Hanja_2 >> >> Our dear enwiki says: >> "In South Korea, Hanja are used most frequently in ancient literature, >> legal documents, and scholarly monographs, where they often appear without >> the equivalent Hangul spelling. Usually, only those words with a >> specialized or ambiguous meaning are printed in Hanja. In mass-circulation >> books and magazines, Hanja are generally used rarely, and only to gloss >> words already spelled in Hangul when the meaning is ambiguous. Hanja are >> also often used in newspaper headlines as abbreviations or to eliminate >> ambiguity.[19] In formal publications, personal names are also usually >> glossed in Hanja in parentheses next to the Hangul" >> >> It makes no sense to have an entire wiki in Hanja. >> _______________________________________________ >> Langcom mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom > > > > Note that, what the article talking about, is the general usage situation > of Korean Hanja in regular Hangul-dominated writing for the language of > Korean. > Instead, the proposal for a Korean Wikipedia written for Hanja, is try to > use premodern Korean orthography where most Hanja-originated Korean words > are to be written using Hanja directly. > While it is indeed true that the general Korean society no longer write > their language this way and thus a Wikipedia in such orthography system > wouldn't qualify, it is inappropriate to reject request for Wikipedia in > such orthography using only the general usage situation of Hanja as reason > instead of specifically probing the use of Hanja-centric Korean orthography. > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom >
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