Re: Invention of the Alphabet

Joachim Pense wrote:
>
> Peter T. Daniels:
>
> > Joachim Pense wrote:
> >>
> >> Peter T. Daniels:
> >>
> >> >
> >> > Do you have any trouble reading Thai or Chinese? No word divisions in
> >> > either script.
> >>
> >> People are reported having trouble reading Chinese (classical in
> >> particular) for exactly that reason.
> >
> > Where did you get such reports?
>
> Sorry, I messed it up. I was referring to the missing *sentence* divisions,
> and that is something different.

Thai does use clause divisions -- and these days Chinese has even
imported Western punctuation marks.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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