In <[email protected]>, on 11/19/2012 at 04:06 PM, "McKown, John" <[email protected]> said:
>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, No; there were no vowel markings to omit; those were invented later, as were the Cantillation marks[2] (trop). AFAIK the interword spacing came before the vowel marks. >which is why some words in the Torah as uncertain as to which word >was meant. There are also issues with consonants. [1] Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niqqud> claims Early Middle Ages. [2] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantillation> -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
