:>: -----Original Message----- :>: From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On :>: Behalf Of McKown, John :>: Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 2:07 PM :>: To: [email protected] :>: Subject: Re: Parsing (was: "New" way to do UCB lookups) :>: :>: 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).
It not just old Hebrew but many letter combinations have an implied vowel which can make the explicit vowel superfluous for the fluent. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
