Re: [Lingo] spaces in japanese writing

["Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com>]

On 15/07/07, Jim Breen <jimbreen@example.com> wrote:

> On 30/06/07, Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com> wrote:
>
> > They are a modern
> > addition to the language, ....
>
> Well, not quite. Some years back I was working on a project analyzing texts
> printed in Japan (in Japanese) around 1600. Guess what - the phrases
> were usually indicated by having slightly greater spaces between them.

Very interesting; I had no idea.

> Originally Greek and Latin were often written without spaces. They were a
> swine to read that way. Some Latin inscriptions have a "." above the first
> letter of each word as an aide to parsing.

Again, stuff I did not know but now do.

Thanks heaps (and heaps), Jim. :)

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Cheers,
Josh