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Article #5370Re: "invention" of silent reading (McLuhan)
From: LEE Sau Dan
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 12:41
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 12:41
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>>>>> "Peter" == Peter T Daniels <grammatim@worldnet.att.net> writes:
Peter> Indicating _every_ syllable boundary provides no more
Peter> information than indicating _no_ syllable boundary. It
Peter> still doesn't help you identify the words, phrases, and
Peter> clauses.
>> It does, as in German Verb-ending vs. Ver'bendung,
>> be'inhaltend vs. bein-haltend. The compounds words would
>> become easier to comprehend when written with clearer
>> indication of the composition. (I'm always complaining that
>> the Germans don't spell the glottal stop that they insert
>> between syllable boundaries when the next starts a new
>> morpheme. Yiddish, by contrast does use the aleph to indicate
>> the glottal stop.)
Peter> We're talking about Chinese, which indicates _every_
Peter> syllable boundary, providing no information about word,
Peter> phrase, or clause boundaries.
Indicating syllable boundary (Chinese) does provide more useful hints
than not marking syllable boundary nor word boundary (Thai).
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 113168,102ef6035d969ce6 X-Google-Attributes: gid113168,public X-Google-Thread: 105f96,102ef6035d969ce6 X-Google-Attributes: gid105f96,public X-Google-Thread: 10a20a,102ef6035d969ce6 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a20a,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-01-02 05:45:02 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-freiburg.de!not-for-mail From: LEE Sau Dan <danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> Newsgroups: sci.lang,humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare,rec.arts.books Subject: Re: "invention" of silent reading (McLuhan) Date: 02 Jan 2004 13:41:45 +0100 Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Germany Lines: 29 Message-ID: <m3smiyv7xy.fsf@mika.informatik.uni-freiburg.de> References: <20031223183604.97721.qmail@web60108.mail.yahoo.com> <bg0Gb.381926$655.82315215@news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> <lyn09imx25.fsf@circe.aeaea> <bsc83f$bqund$1@ID-114100.news.uni-berlin.de> <3FE9ECDB.2DAC@worldnet.att.net> <m3vfnzpd19.fsf@mika.informatik.uni-freiburg.de> <3FF16F87.738B@worldnet.att.net> <m3fzf2xqac.fsf@mika.informatik.uni-freiburg.de> <3FF1F303.6CC@worldnet.att.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: savona.informatik.uni-freiburg.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-7 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2