Re: Questions/comments about glossary and FAQ entries (i18n-actions#25)

LGTM.

On 7/24/2023 4:08 PM, Ken Whistler wrote:
>
> Addison,
>
> O.k., on *this* one, since I hold the pen on the Glossary page, I've 
> taken your and Ken Lunde's feedback under advisement, and have a new 
> draft you can check. This updates "kana", but also "kanji", 
> "katakana", and "hiragana" in a systematic way, and adds a new entry 
> for "romaji".
>
> https://www.unicode.org/glossary/index-new.html#kana
>
> If nobody objects or has any further suggestions for corrections, I'll 
> make that live in a day or so.
>
> --Ken
>
> On 7/24/2023 2:09 PM, Ken Lunde wrote:
>> Addison,
>>
>> About katakana, it is also used for expressing animal and plant 
>> names, and for emphasis (comparable to italic for Western scripts). 
>> About hiragana, it is commonly used as fallback for Japanese words 
>> when the corresponding kanji is either difficult to remember or obscure.
>>
>> Regards...
>>
>> -- Ken
>>
>>> On Jul 24, 2023, at 13:49, Addison Phillips <addisoni18n@gmail.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>> The issues we found were:
>>>
>>> Term: Kana
>>>
>>> Location: https://unicode.org/glossary/#kana
>>>
>>> Current Definition: /The name of a primarily syllabic script used by 
>>> the Japanese writing system. It comes in two forms, ///hiragana/ 
>>> <https://unicode.org/glossary/#hiragana>//and ///katakana/ 
>>> <https://unicode.org/glossary/#katakana>//. The former is used to 
>>> write particles, grammatical affixes, and words that have no 
>>> ///kanji/ <https://unicode.org/glossary/#kanji> //form; the latter 
>>> is used primarily to write foreign words./
>>>
>>> We found this definition to be potentially confusing. Generally 
>>> several of our group think that it would be clearer to say that 
>>> “Kana” is a collective term for the two syllabic scripts used (along 
>>> with kanji and romaji) by the Japanese writing system. Also, the 
>>> usage of katakana is not limited to words of foreign origin and 
>>> maybe some wording might be used to indicate this.
>>>
>>>
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