Talk:Revised Romanization of Korean
Proper Noun[edit]
"A Romanization standard for Korean. (So to speak, The Revised Romanization of Korean by the South Korean Ministry of Culture and Tourism -- my insert in parentheses) This is the preferred Romanization for Korean words in the English Wiktionary." -- quoted from the article.
According to this dualist standard and the "preferred" Wiktionary convention, the short name '한국' for South Korea, for instance, should be Romanized confusingly differently as follows:
- Hanguk (before a consonant or independently)
- Hangug (before a vowel, e.g., -eo (-어) "Korean language").
According to the exceptional provision (No. 8) of the standard in the end, however, such an unfortunate dualism of the final consonants, confusing Hanguk with Hangug, could and would better be simply avoided or unified into the latter. Yet no such move is found that this exception can be applied to Wiktionary, which seems to take the Romanization just for a pronunciation aid but no more.
Admittedly, the main motivation for Romanization has been Korean proper names rather than another equivalent orthography so as to be used in foreign linguistic contexts, say, in English passages, while the highly dynamic agglutination and conjugation of Korean words being underestimated.
Ironically, the main motivation as noted above is in danger of such inconsistent hence improper proper names looking like Janus! See also my recent User_talk:KYPark on Transcription. Lastly, whoever comment on this here, please write something not too bad on my User_talk:KYPark to alert me. Thanks. --KYPark 06:36, 8 September 2006 (UTC)