I was told that many old languages had no interword spacing mainly because that wasted precious writing material. I was also told that old Hebrew omitted the "vowels" to save space, which is why some words in the Torah as uncertain as to which word was meant. mgnsntncwthnvwlsndnspcs (Imagine a sentence with no vowels and no spaces).
-- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets® 9151 Boulevard 26 • N. Richland Hills • TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone • [email protected] • www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets® is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. –The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company®, Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Steve Comstock > Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 4:00 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Parsing (was: "New" way to do UCB lookups) > > On 11/19/2012 2:56 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 21:39:57 +0000, Lindy Mayfield wrote: > >> > >> It gets me all Lewis Carroll just thinking about it. I cannot even > >> imagine how to create something like that SQL in Finnish. Something > >> so simple as that, I cannot even think how a computer could parse it > >> written in an agglutinative language. Though I am a bear of very > >> little brain, so I'm sure it could be done. :-) > >> > > Wouldn't this be somewhat like FORTRAN, where the lexical analyzer > > first removes _all_[1] blanks, rendering the source code maximally > > agglutinative, then attempts to parse the mess so created? > > > > [1] Well, except in quoted or counted text strings. > > > >> So to bring it a bit back on to topic, English can be weird, but > sometimes quite useful in its own way. > >> > > Classic Latin was written with no interword separators. > > Interesting. I didn't know that. Japanese is written with no interword > separators also. > > > > -- > > Kind regards, > > -Steve Comstock > The Trainer's Friend, Inc. > > 303-355-2752 > http://www.trainersfriend.com > > * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! > + Training your people is an excellent investment > > * Try our tool for calculating your Return On Investment > for training dollars at > http://www.trainersfriend.com/ROI/roi.html > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
