Linguistic Tyranny
The dominance of the effeminate accent of the capital now has the force of law — Court Upholds Seoul Dialect as Standard Korean.
I'm proud that my children are native speakers of the Gyeongsang dialect, which is marked by its "highly pronounced intonation," and which, we learn, is a "direct descendant of the Silla language" and "maintains a trace of Middle Age Korean."
This is also interesting: "During the military dictatorship (1960-1992) the Gyeongsang dialect had an informal supremacy over other dialects as all of the presidents were natives of Gyeongsang province. This bias towards the dialect ended with the democratization of South Korea."
I'm proud that my children are native speakers of the Gyeongsang dialect, which is marked by its "highly pronounced intonation," and which, we learn, is a "direct descendant of the Silla language" and "maintains a trace of Middle Age Korean."
This is also interesting: "During the military dictatorship (1960-1992) the Gyeongsang dialect had an informal supremacy over other dialects as all of the presidents were natives of Gyeongsang province. This bias towards the dialect ended with the democratization of South Korea."
Labels: Corea, Linguistics, Militarism, Tyranny
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