The king was worried that the korean people might not accept the new alphabet, and thought that it should appear to have a magical origin. So one evening he used some honey to paint large leaves with the shapes of the new letters. Next day he took a walk with his soothsayer, who saw the leaves. Just those parts of them that had been painted with honey had been eaten by insects, making it seem as if the letters had been etched into the leaves. The soothsayer thought that the letters were gifts from Heaven, and adopted the king's suggestion that they should be used for writing Korean. From that day on the Koreans have celebrated the invention of their alphabet. October 9 is a nationaly holiday. As far as I know, Korea is the only country that has a national holiday celebrating a linguistic event. Perhaps we should all join in and make this an international linguists' festival. Excerpt from --- Vowels and Consonants --- -- ◣ ◢ ◣ ◢ ◣ ◢██◤◢██ ▁▂▃▄多國語言交換社▅▆▇█ █◣◢█ █ █ █ ◤ █ █ ◢ 9/28起每週五晚上六點半☆ ◤ █◥◤█ █ █ █ █ █ ◢ 大一女美食廣場內咖啡店★ ◤ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ ◢ 批踢梯社板Multi-lingua☆ ◤ ◥ ◤ ◥██◤ ███◣ █ ███◣ ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ --

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