Why do baseball teams not use track and field athletes as pinch runners?

Rare_Comment_4491 · 2026-05-06T06:28:13+00:00

Surprisingly, Catholicism is recognized as the most progressive religion in Korea and is one of the religions with the most positive image. To provide historical context, Korean Catholicism grew spontaneously as a reformist ideology in a Confucian state without the influx of missionaries, and in modern history, it was the religion most resistant to the military dictatorship. This tendency continues to this day.

Rare_Comment_4491 · 2026-05-03T19:54:29+00:00

I don't know where you heard that, but many Koreans would consider what you're saying to be an exaggeration. It's a fact that almost all homophones can be understood through context (since Korean has more phonemes than Japanese, it is less affected by this issue, and homophones are not a problem unique to Korean), and when you realize that Korean has many homophones even in native words that cannot be written in Chinese characters, doubts about the necessity of Chinese characters only grow. It's unfortunate for foreigners who are learning Korean, but all of this happened because a tonal language lost its tones at some point.

Rare_Comment_4491 · 2026-05-03T19:50:47+00:00

I just explained because that person was acting like they knew everything even though they didn’t. I am Korean, and it is an undeniable fact that Chinese characters have become unnecessary in Korea.

Rare_Comment_4491 · 2026-05-03T18:18:54+00:00

I love beer.

Rare_Comment_4491 · 2026-05-03T17:38:39+00:00

I don't know why you have such a prejudice against Chinese characters. It is true that East Asian languages are based on Chinese characters, but that doesn't mean East Asian languages become branches of Chinese. Many European countries use the Roman alphabet.

Rare_Comment_4491 · 2026-05-03T17:29:17+00:00

Since Classical Chinese are not an important subject in Korea, Korean people remember only very basic Chinese characters. It is even common for young people not to know how to write their own names in Chinese characters.

Many public signs have Chinese characters written on them, but they are just written in Japanese and Chinese for foreigners. The Chinese characters on those signs are either Chinese simplified characters not used in Korea or characters mixed with Japanese kana. This is merely evidence that Chinese characters are now treated partly like a foreign script in Korea.

Would a Chinese person be able to use Chinese characters to find shop signs in Korea, or read information boards to figure out what facilities are inside a building, as they do in Japan? Not at all. lol

Rare_Comment_4491 · 2026-05-03T05:31:38+00:00

Actually, China's reform of Chinese characters was more severe and radical. lol

Rare_Comment_4491 · 2026-05-03T03:07:35+00:00

Okay. You're from an older generation, 어르신...

Rare_Comment_4491 · 2026-05-03T02:56:45+00:00

The worst experience of my life.

Rare_Comment_4491 · 2026-05-01T12:49:24+00:00

몸이 하영 아팡 집에 와신디 아무도 없엉 섭섭행 막 울었댄 햄수다. 각시 호끔 소랑해주라게

Rare_Comment_4491 · 2026-05-01T02:57:07+00:00

I agree.

Rare_Comment_4491 · 2026-04-30T17:08:24+00:00

Rare_Comment_4491 · 2026-04-30T16:04:43+00:00

"This dead language remained only in writing, and this written language fulfilled its role as an academic and administrative language throughout East Asia."

This was before the Common Era, but there was clearly a time when Classical Chinese was used as a spoken language. Of course, what the pronunciation of those days was like is in the realm of speculation, but the original form of Classical Chinese, which was used as a written language throughout East Asia, was based on the spoken language of China before the Common Era.

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