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Article #5378Re: "invention" of silent reading (McLuhan)
From: Peter T. Daniels
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 21:49
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 21:49
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LEE Sau Dan wrote: > > >>>>> "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.) We're talking about Chinese, which indicates _every_ syllable boundary, providing no information about word, phrase, or clause boundaries. Yiddish doesn't have a glottal stop; the letter Aleph is a vowel letter. (That's one of the reasons Yiddish always sounds to me like German with an American accent, even from the native speakers who were my grandmother's friends [though my grandmother was English-native, born in Brooklyn].) -- Peter T. Daniels grammatim@att.net
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10a20a,102ef6035d969ce6 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a20a,public X-Google-Thread: 105f96,102ef6035d969ce6 X-Google-Attributes: gid105f96,public X-Google-Thread: 113168,102ef6035d969ce6 X-Google-Attributes: gid113168,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-12-30 13:49:56 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!crtntx1-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!chcgil2-snh1.gtei.net!news.bbnplanet.com!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3FF1F303.6CC@worldnet.att.net> From: "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@worldnet.att.net> X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04 (Macintosh; I; PPC) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: sci.lang,humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare,rec.arts.books Subject: Re: "invention" of silent reading (McLuhan) 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 27 Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 21:49:56 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.75.160.53 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1072820996 12.75.160.53 (Tue, 30 Dec 2003 21:49:56 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 21:49:56 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet