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Article #5379Re: "invention" of silent reading (McLuhan)
From: Peter T. Daniels
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 21:52
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 21:52
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Christine Cooper wrote: > > > > > (Part of the reason it's not so easy to read a Kufic Qur'an is that the > > distinction between inter- and intra-word spaces is usually not (yet?) > > observed.) > > ++++++++ > > I'm just guessing, but I lived in Malaysia for about six months, and > so listened to the Qur'an several times a day. > > Could it be that any "spaces" in this particular context might > indicate > proposed "breathing spaces," rather than textual breaks, > because the Qur'an is sung, rather than spoken? No. Have a look at a page of Kufic (in any book on Islamic calligraphy). You'll see the letters in groups of 1, 2, or maybe 3, paying no attention to word division. Compare a book in Thai or another SEA script, where you'll see almost no spaces, whatever the morphological typology of the language represented. -- Peter T. Daniels grammatim@att.net
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