Typically in modern languages the vowel points, diacritic markings, syllabic stress markers, etc., are only used in printed works that are used by beginning learners of those languages. Being a beginning learner in Greek once again (and this time no drop-out), I have happily discovered that modern Greek texts atypically have syllabic stress markers in each word.
My Latin teacher told me the same thing 50+ years ago - that punctuation, inter-word spacing, capitalization, etc., were never necessary until people stopped thinking. Delving into other languages is a good way to expand one's horizons and diminish one's provinciality. Like anything else we learn to do, I would wager that reading and writing in any language without punctuation, capitalization, and spacing would get much easier after the first few thousand hours of practice. :-) Bill Fairchild Programmer Rocket Software 408 Chamberlain Park Lane * Franklin, TN 37069-2526 * USA t: +1.617.614.4503 * e: [email protected] * w: www.rocketsoftware.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Pew, Curtis G Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 4:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Parsing (was: "New" way to do UCB lookups) On Nov 19, 2012, at 3:56 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: > Classic Latin was written with no interword separators. My Greek professor once told us all punctuation (and spaces between words are punctuation) is a "crutch for poor readers." I'll keep my crutch, thank you very much. -- Curtis Pew ([email protected]) ITS Systems Core The University of Texas at Austin ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
