RE: [Lingo] spaces in japanese writing

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> From: lingo-bounces@example.com [mailto:lingo-bounces@example.com On 
> Behalf Of steven smith
> Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2007 8:17 AM
> To: Natural language discussion
> Subject: [Lingo] spaces in japanese writing
> 
> 
> The woman I've been working with on my Japanese said
> something the other day that surprised me.  She said there 
> should be spaces between some of the words, but she couldn't 
> tell me if there was a rule or a convention for this -- only 
> that some of the words should have spaces between. 
<snip>
>  I received a note from a friend (email) and 
> out of about200 characters there were 3 spaces.
> 
> So -- is there a rule/convention for this??  When should you 
> use spaces when writing Japanese?

I am just guessing on this one, but it could be that some concepts just
need the separation.
I have observed spaces used after any comma use, and occaisonaly where
there was no comma,
but it would have made sense to have a comma in an English or German
scentence.

I have seen at times scentences broken up by clause as well.  
Kind of like "theboyran towardstheschool becausehewaslate."
:P

Warning:
These are just observations.  My own personal level of Japanese speech
is still very minimal.
Don't assume I know what I am talking about. ^_^