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• 訓民正音 from 직지프로젝트 You should know Chinese better than I know.
  
  I've started WikiPedia:Hunmin_jeong-eum and translated the very first paragraphs (the most important, in this case). But translating the Classical_Chinese into modern Chinese is almost like translating from another language! -- Menchi, 05:18 August 9, 2003
  

  DeleteMe Menchi, please understand some Koeran below as I have something to discuss about how to 'properly' match Korean alphabet into English alphabet and vice versa with NoSmokians. We Korean do have some guidelines made by the government regarding sound / letter match, but I'm not quite sure in which extent that guideline is used in our daily internet life. If you have some 'rules' to change Korean alphabet into English, we also could bring that into the table. Regardless, I'd really appreciate your starting translating the 訓民正音. Thank you so much! Your saying that "translating the Classical_Chinese into modern Chinese is almost like translating from another language!" makes two of us - or maybe more! - in the same boat as I have the exact same problem when I try to translate old Korean into modern Korean.
  

  AnswerMe 훈민정음의 영문 표기에 대해서 어떻게 생각하십니까? 음절 언어인 한글을 영어로 표시할 때 상당히 고민되고, 제가 보는 관점에서는 아직까지 '훈민정음'에 대해 일관성을 가지고 번역이 안 되었다고 생각합니다만. 지금 이 분의 경우만 봐도 Hunmin_Jeong-Eum 이라고 두 음절, 한 음절, 한 음절로 쓰고 있고, 한 번은 _, 또 다른 한 번은 - 로 음절을 나누고 있습니다. HunMinJeongEum이 나을지, Hunminjeongeum이 나을지, Hum-Min-Jeong-Eum이 나을지, 아니면 다른 의견이 있는지 한 번 투표를 해 보시렵니까?
  

  Word division and capitalization dilemma that Korean Romanization faces is really similar to those of Chinese Romanization (called Pinyin). Here's what I know for sure:
  
• Officially, there is no within-word capitalization (like HunMin). Within-word cap is common only on the Internet.
  
• Syllable ambiguity is resolved by hyphen, e.g., jeong-eum and jeon-geum.
  
  • Old pre-2000 system (McCune-Reischauer Romanization) used apostrophe (') to resolve syllable ambiguity. But it also uses apsotrophe for distinguishing ㅂ (p) and ㅍ (p').
    
• The initial of the second syllable after a hyphen is never capitalized in a word, i.e., jeon-geum, not jeon-Geum. They're only capitalized if the hyphen connects two words, e.g., Jeon-Geum, as in two persons, one person named Jeon, another named Geum.
  Here's what uncertainty I have found:
  
• Word division: So where to divide: Hunminjeong-eum or Hunmin Jeong-eum or Hun Min Jeong Eum?
  
  • * Books: I have seen all three ways in books. But "Hunmin Jeong-eum" (sometimes J is not capitalized) seems to be most common. The word division seems to be illogical.
    
  • * Daily words: People just divide them as it would in English (which usually applies to French and Spanish too, but not German). -- Menchi, 07:07 August 9, 2003
    
    Thank you for the information. The reason I asked this question to other Koreans is simple. There is no consistency the way people write 훈민정음 in English, and therefore I have had a concern regarding Korean cultural 'keyword' later on.
    My personal perference would be Hunminjeongeum with italics to be distinguished to other English words. Hangeul - the Korean Alpahbet wrote that way without italics. Hunmin Jeongeum or Hunmin Jeong-eum should be OK too, however the way I see it is that it does not have consitency. 훈민정음 has four syllables and at the same time 훈민(訓民) has 'verb + object' stucture and 정음(正音) has 'adjective + noun' structure, and it has two or three pause when we sound. So this is something that on which elements we should put an emphasis. I would put them together if dividing into each syllable is not possible. - 김민수, 2009.8.9
    
• how is this - an illuminating phonetic signs ? --musiki