Re: Invention of the Alphabet

>>>>> "Peter" == Peter T Daniels <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Peter> I don't know "word list." "Wordlist" is one word.
>> >> And "name list"? "Shopping list"? "mailing list"?
>>
Peter> I don't know "name list." The other two are two-word
Peter> phrases.
>> Why aren't they "one word"?

Peter> Because there's a space inside them.

Peter> I can anticipate your next question:

No. Your guess is wrong.

My next question: A chinese sentence is written without spacing. So,
the whole sentence is one single word?


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