Re: Invention of the Alphabet

Lee Sau Dan wrote:
>
> >>>>> "Peter" == Peter T Daniels <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> >> My next question: A chinese sentence is written without
> >> spacing. So, the whole sentence is one single word?
>
> Peter> You're beginning to look like gilgames.
>
> Peter> Chinese has no spacing. Therefore spacing has no
> Peter> significance in Chinese.
>
> So, you lack a common yardstick to define the notion of "word" for
> Chinese in a way consistent with English.
>
> And your previous yardstick of "one entry in a *foreigner language*
> dictionary" also turned out to be useless because that would make the
> English term "train station" one word as it has its own entry in a
> French dictionary ("gare") or German dictionary ("Bahnhof").

I can only handle one gilgames at a time.

Fortunately, they tend to appear only one at a time (and I won't name
any names lest they be summoned from the vasty deep).
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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