(Hello, I'm Linda Park. I play Hoshi, the linguistic expert, on Enterprise.)  In Chinese, each symbol represents a word; in Japanese, each symbol a syllable; in Korean, each symbol, this
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Japanese katakana - Omniglot  The katakana syllabary was derived from abbreviated Chinese characters used by ... At first there were many different symbols to represent one syllable of spoken Japanese, but over the ... The word katakana "part (of kanji) syllabic script". ... In each column the rmaji appears on the left, the katakana symbols in the middle...
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Japanese language - Wikipedia  Japanese is an East Asian language spoken by about 125 million speakers, primarily in Japan, ... This article contains IPA phonetic symbols. ... Chinese documents from the 3rd century recorded a few Japanese words, but substantial texts ... Texts written with Man'ygana use two different kanji for each of the syllables now...
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Star Trek Linda Park Interview  Nov 15, 2010 ... Linda Park, much like her Enterprise alter-ego, communications officer Hoshi ... Maybe if the reverse were true and I'd been playing the Mirror Hoshi, then when ... Harry Kim (Garrett Wang) was a Korean character played by a Chinese-American. ... In fact, it's all thanks to Linda/Hoshi that I'm even a Trek fan!
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Japanese Cinema: Texts and Contexts - analepsis  sion of all the major directors of Japanese cinema including Ozu, Mizoguchi, ..... Observations on the Visual Arts and Cinema of China and Japan (second edition, ... He has published articles on Ishihara Yujiro in Word and Image in Japanese ..... audiences today, these films remain lasting symbols of the virtues of a certain.
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Linda Park on Jeopardy Video Clue | IGN Boards - IGN.com  (Hello, I'm Linda Park. I play Hoshi, the linguistic expert on Enterprise.) In Chinese, each symbol represents a word; in Japanese, each symbol a syllable; in Korean, each symbol, this. Answer: What is a letter? Also, by a...
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Japanese writing system - Wikipedia  The modern Japanese writing system is a combination of three character types: logographic ... Hiragana and katakana characters also originally derive from Chinese characters ... Romanized Japanese, called rmaji, is most frequently used by foreign ... Some Japanese words are written with different kanji depending on the...
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Master Dogen's Shobogenzo - The Zen Site  Aug 7, 1991 ... In 1940 he first met Master Kd Sawaki, whose teaching he .... reading the Shbgenz is the best way to come to an exact .... Thus, we have let the romanization of all names of Chinese mas- ...... The black dragon's pearl is a symbol ...... Master Dgen often used the expression bend kufu, effort in...
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J! Archive - Show #3875, aired 2001-06-08  Speech sound formed by the active use of these is called labial ... This card game is also called twenty-one or vingt-et-un...
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The Structure of Language - Boundless  The smallest linguistic unit within a word that can carry a meaning, such as "un-", ... in Chinese, the pitch of your voice determines the meaning of your words; ... one phoneme has been altered, but a change in meaning has been triggered. ... Inflectional morphemes modify either the tense of a verb or the number value of a...
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Seoul 1988 Mascot(s) Hodori | History & Photos - Olympics  Name The Ho of Hodori comes from the Korean word meaning tiger, while Dori is a ... Find out more about the Seoul 1988 Olympic Games on olympic.org...
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Chinese Logographs vs. the Latin Alphabet | - Habitable Worlds  Jul 11, 2013 ... ... AD (true in the sense that it used movable types instead of wood or ceramic blocks, ... No such method for creating Chinese types was ever invented, in part, ... The East Asians had higher average IQs, but they didn't have an alphabet. .... to tackle it on its own  an intriguing but insoluble counter-factual.
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Chinese Language  EthnoMed  There is also a form called "pin-yin" which is the Chinese language ... but there are also several other major dialects in use in China: Yue (Cantonese), Xiang...
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Linda Park | Memory Alpha | Fandom powered by Wikia  Actress Linda Park (born 9 July 1978; age 38) portrayed communications officer Ensign Hoshi Sato... ... portrayed communications officer Ensign Hoshi Sato on Star Trek: Enterprise. Born in Seoul, South Korea, she moved with her parents to San Jose, ... At the first reading for the role of Hoshi Sato, Park faced many Asian...
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Why Was Z Removed from the Alphabet? | Dictionary.com Blog  May 24, 2011 ... The Greek zeta is the origin of the humble z. ... Early English did not have a z but used s for both voiced and ..... I've read that, like the British, words that begin with the letter z will .... So & is not a letter because it is three sounds (or letters) in one symbol. ...... Poor Chinese most of them has Zs and why?
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Between dream and metaphor: haiku of Yosa Buson  Via Negativa  Dec 6, 2009 ... The best way to read Japanese haiku, as far as I'm concerned, ... Though ambiguity has always been prized in Japanese poetry, ... that letter-reading woman is to moon as blossom is to pear tree. *** ... The night almost past,
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Chinese Cultural Studies: The Chinese Language and Alphabet  The Sinitic languages are spoken by over 1,000 million people. ... throughout the whole of South-east Asia, especially in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, .... It may be that pin-yin will ultimately supplant the general use of characters, or there...
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Chinese Language - SACU  1st tone (high, level, long), indicated by a horizontal bar e.g.  2nd tone (high, rising, medium), indicated by a rising accent e.g.  3rd tone (low, dipping, long),...
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Seoul  Hanyang (,),the formal name for the Choson Dynasty capital, first appears ... Hanyang, then,simply means the north or sunny side of the Han River. ... Seoul is a pure Korean word and is not written with Chinese characters. ... From Muakchae, the tiger force flows through Ansan (,),or Saddle Mountain,...
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What is the story behind the word "Mahjong"? - English Language ...  Jun 9, 2014 ... also spelled majiang, mah jongg, and numerous other variants, is a game ... mqu)meaning sparrowwhich is still the name most commonly used in ... I would dispute the idea that the name of the game only goes back to...
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Foreign Sounding Gibberish - TV Tropes  Also consider Esperanto, the Universal Language. For hilariously inverted examples of this trope, watch here (fake German) and here (fake English).
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Tone (linguistics) - Wikipedia  Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning  that is, to distinguish or to inflect words. ... In the most widely spoken tonal language, Mandarin Chinese, tones are ... In a multisyllabic word, each syllable often carries its own tone. .... A well-known tongue-twister in the Standard Thai is:.