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What is even the point of pedantic "well, duh" comments like this?

"English {can be,is} written using the Latin character set"

"The symbol 'e' {can be,is} used as a vowel"

"Italian {can be,is} spoken in Rome"

"Python {can be,is} used to program a computer"

"A car {can be,is} used to drive on the road"

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Because not everyone knows Hangul and could learn something wrong.

But it's not even strictly correct from a technical point of view. In Unicode, Hangul syllables can either be encoded directly as a single codepoint, or composed from multiple codepoints each representing a single jamo.

One could conceivably devise a Morse code encoding that simply uses the Unicode codepoints of the syllables. It would be a bad way to do it, but it's an option. Composition isn't a hard requirement for Hangul encodings.

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