Re: Why does German favor long compound words?
- From: António Marques <m.ap@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 01:48:58 +0000
Mike Wright wrote:
António Marques wrote:LEE Sau Dan wrote:
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.
Well, it's not human nature to do everything right. Or the world would have to be a much better place.
Imagine all the people
Taking the right decisions
Imagine if there were such a thing
As right decisions
Or left, even.
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