Jongseong

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by Jongseong 12y ago
Linguists must be rolling their eyes at this study. If you want to study language evolution, phonemes are the last thing you should look at. Languages change, fast, and the sounds of a language change drastically over generations. Compare m
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by Jongseong 12y ago
Sorry for the late reply as I didn't see this until now. There is no reason for there to be a difference in English loanword usage in North Korea between the border area and the far far North. Remember, the DMZ is a tightly sealed bord
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by Jongseong 12y ago
I am well aware of the language situation in Italy, and I hesitated a bit before using it as an example. I probably should have qualified my use of the word "dialect" as you rightly point out. I do remind people from time to time
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by Jongseong 12y ago
Are you talking about loanwords from English in the Korean used in North Korea? Korean was already borrowing words from English decades before the division of the peninsula, as you can see in writings from the Japanese colonial period. So N
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by Jongseong 12y ago
Actually, they do teach Chinese characters in school in North Korea; it is a common misconception that they don't. They teach 3,000 characters, which is numerically even more than the 1,800 characters taught in South Korea in school. B
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by Jongseong 12y ago
You've got the gist, but North Korea does use tonnes of Sino-Korean words, which are like words of Greek and Latin origin in English. You can't simply eliminate such words from the language altogether. What you can do is to favour
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by Jongseong 12y ago
From what I've seen in the South Korean media, no one is talking about North Korean involvement in this separate hacking incident of nuclear reactors. The codes seem to be different from those used in previous attacks blamed on North K
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by Jongseong 12y ago
To understand the language situation in Korea, let's imagine that we divided the Italian peninsula in half just north of Rome. Does it follow that now there are two dialects, North Italian and South Italian? No. Italian has a bewilderi
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by Jongseong 12y ago
I'm dismayed that this piece is repeating Marc Rogers's gross misportrayal of the linguistic situation of the Koreas, saying that "Korean language in the code also suggests a Korean origin, though not necessarily a North Kore
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by Jongseong 12y ago
In their press release, the FBI only cited evidence that was already previously to the public. http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/update-on-so... "As a result of our investigation, and in cl
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by Jongseong 12y ago
Never underestimate the usefulness of plausible deniability, one of the main advantages of cyber warfare. It doesn't even have to be cyber warfare. North Korea still denies that it was behind the 2010 sinking of the Cheonan, a South Ko
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by Jongseong 12y ago
It's certainly possible, but I don't know if there is unambiguous evidence for contact between the Inuit and the Norse in Canada. Norse objects and technology in Inuit possession in Canada could easily have been obtained first in
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Sony hacker language(languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
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by Jongseong 12y ago
Please see my other comments, but we don't have direct proof of face-to-face contact between the Dorset and the Norse but ample proof of prolonged periods of contact between the Inuit and the Norse.
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by Jongseong 12y ago
The Norse found only abandoned Dorset settlements when they first came to Greenland. They had already disappeared from Greenland by A.D. 300, long before the Norse arrived. They did reoccupy northwestern Greenland around A.D. 700, but didn&
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by Jongseong 12y ago
From the other side, Norse accounts describe often hostile encounters with natives, whom they called Skrælings. This term referred to the Greenland Inuits and the (probably Algonquian-speaking) Canadian Indians in Vinland. Intriguingly, som
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by Jongseong 12y ago
I see. This is a scheme you can apply for once you are VAT registered and are up to date with your VAT returns. I'm not sure how that changes things for first-time VAT registered businesses. For businesses that have not been registered
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by Jongseong 12y ago
I don't know if you mean in Arctic Canada specifically, but in Greenland the Inuit certainly have orally transmitted memories of contact with the former Norse population. In 1721 the Norwegian Lutheran missionary Hans Egede went to Gre
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by Jongseong 12y ago
No, VAT MOSS Return periods are calendar quarters, so you need to submit quarterly statements: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/revenue-and-custo... This has nothing to do with income. This is because an
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by Jongseong 12y ago
What you are overlooking is that the vast majority of these people (and women are disproportionately represented, including many stay-at-home mums doing this in their spare time) did not have to deal with VAT _at all_ previously because the
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by Jongseong 12y ago
At least in the UK, you'll be required to keep such private data for 10 years, which also means registering as data processors and controllers with the Information Commissioner's Office. See this: https://www.gov.uk&#x2
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by Jongseong 12y ago
The seller is also supposed to collect evidence of the location of the purchaser (billing addresses, IP addresses, etc.). By the time you're required to collect private data for each transaction, it becomes more than simply the kind of
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by Jongseong 12y ago
The word "existential" (attested since the late 17th century) was used as an adjective relating to existence long before the birth of Existentialism. In the phrase "existential threat", there is no cause of confusion (un
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by Jongseong 12y ago
Language is a slippery thing, and meanings of words change over time. Here's a short story illustrating how absurd it would be if we insisted all the words were used in their original sense: http://unabridged.merriam-webster
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by Jongseong 12y ago
I would like to think that most people would be able to distinguish between the Russian people and culture on the one hand and their current government on the other. But let's use the shorthand of saying "Russia" for the geop
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by Jongseong 12y ago
Thanks, I should have made the connection to encoding immediately. I've found more info in <a href=" http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/02/north-kore... following Guardian article
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by Jongseong 12y ago
The article has a really weak grasp of the language situation in the Koreas. Setting aside the conclusion of the article, here is my input on the language-related points (the first two), coming from a South Korean. I have to say I find poin
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by Jongseong 12y ago
Concurrent to the Hungarian uprising of 1956, there was some unrest in Romania as well, and the Soviet military presence there was strengthened in response. Romania began to oppose the Soviet hegemony in the 1960s—Ceaușescu spoke out agains
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Google Webfonts, The Spy Inside?(fontfeed.com)
1 points by Jongseong 13y ago|0 comments
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by Jongseong 13y ago
Yes, as far as ppis on bigger devices, it feels like there has been much more progress in the past couple of years than in the decade preceding them. The difference is certainly noticeable in direct comparison, though most consumers are not

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