[05:53:00] <drbean> Oops, from that wiktionary page, it looks like I misrepresented google's transliteration of  고양이 as goyang-i
[05:55:51] <drbean> Google isn't using the hyphen to separate word stem from grammatical suffixes.
[06:06:40] <drbean>  It's following the romanizations explained on https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:About_Korean/Romanization
[06:07:36] <drbean> ".. syllable-initial ㅇ is represented by a hyphen. Thus "백이" is romanized "baeg-i" while "배기" is romanized "baegi."
[06:17:54] <drbean> The romanizations are a can of worms. And they're not going to help people unfamiliar with Korean produce speech understandable to Korean listeners. The b/p, g/k, d/t romanizations are not representing a voiced/unvoiced distinction, but an unaspirated/aspirated one.
[06:30:52] <drbean> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_language says of world languages taught by US government agencies, Korean is in Category IV.
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