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Article #5392Re: "invention" of silent reading (McLuhan)
From: Michael Farris
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 00:09
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 00:09
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"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:<3FED8687.3EC0@worldnet.att.net>... > Michael Farris wrote: > > Well to be perfectly clear, breaks in Thai texts often do correspond > > to clause breaks but also often enough, for printing reasons, a break > > needs to be made elsewhere in which case the break is a little random, > > Why would you "need" to break elsewhere than a line end? TO make the ends of the lines even. Line breaks in Thai (usually? always?) coincide with words. Getting the margins on either side even means inserting a space somewhere in the line. It's this kind of break that puzzles non-natives as the placement of the break often seems random and is not visually distinct from non-random breaks (to me) > (Note that the "non-connecting" letters in Arabic don't connect, but > they don't trigger something like a word break after them No, this isn't that. The break after the reduplication sign for example looks just as big as the other breaks. I don't have it handy but IIRC Haas mentions the seeming random nature of (some) breaks in Thai writing in her handbook about the Thai writing system. And I've seen references elsewhere as well, just don't recall where. -michael farris
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