Re: Invention of the Alphabet

Richard Herring wrote:
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> In message <42F00C5A.25C6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Peter T. Daniels
> <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
> >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
>
> For some suitably vague definition of "clause". It doesn't seem to
> correspond to the notion of "sentence".

"Sentence" isn't a technical term in linguistics.

> > -- and these days Chinese has even
> >imported Western punctuation marks.
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