Re: Why does German favor long compound words?
- From: LEE Sau Dan <danlee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:56:32 +0800
"Richard" == Richard Fangnail <richardfangnail@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Richard> You know what I mean, esp. technical words. Isn't it
Richard> just human nature to want a space between the parts, so
Richard> it's easier to read?
No, it isn't human nature. Ancient Greek wasn't written with spaces.
Classical and modern Chinese and Japanese are still not written with
spaces. Thai writing -- which is alphabetic -- isn't written with
spaces. Tibetan is written with a syllable-boundary mark, but no
spacing between parts.
Even among languages using Roman letters, we can find German and Dutch
where no space is put between parts of long long compounds.
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Lee Sau Dan 李守敦 ~{@nJX6X~}
E-mail: danlee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Home page: http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~danlee
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