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| | [KS] romanization absolutism |
 | | Martin created Yale Romanization as a linguistic tool; it was meant to maximize the transparency of Korean phonological and morphological structure, and for that it has never been equaled, much less surpassed. |
 | | For example, word spacing is used liberally to show junctures; and the /q/ (as in _hanqca_ 'Chinese characters' or _anq pang_ 'inner room'), which some on this list seem to have found upsetting, is used to show instances of a phonemic distinction ("glottalization", or "reinforcement") not always indicated in South Korean Hangul orthography. |
 | | Yale Romanization is used, for example, in all of Sohn Ho-min's books and articles, as well as in Lee and Ramsey's _The Korean Language_. |
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