Except that Cyrillic is an easy alphabet to learn - at least upper case is. :-) And it's particularly sensible with its single characters for dzh, ch, sh, ts, ya etc.
And German is sensible too, apart from the boot verb., :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker From: "McKown, John" <john.mck...@healthmarkets.com> To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu, Date: 11/20/2012 12:53 PM Subject: Re: Parsing (was: "New" way to do UCB lookups) Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu> Gee, that sort of thing is why I was scared off of taking German in college. Unfortunately, in my ignorance, I took Russian instead. Long words with really funny looking characters. <grin/> -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets® 9151 Boulevard 26 . N. Richland Hills . TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone . john.mck...@healthmarkets.com . 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:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Lindy Mayfield > Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 4:53 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Parsing (was: "New" way to do UCB lookups) > > this isn't a complete illustrative example of what you refer to, but > even still in some languages this is still today a certain extent true. > some finnish words have all sorts of grammar built into them, yet are > still considered one word: > > ikä = age > ikävä = miss (you), too bad > ikävystyä = to miss someone, be bored > ikävystyneisyys = boredom > ikävystyneisyydessä = in boredom > ikävystynesyydessäänkään = not even in his boredeom ... > > that is for me a funny example, but not at all extreme. German has a > lot of compound words that have no spaces. Finnish, too. My example > was a single "word" but I could have made it longer by compounding it. > > Lindy > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Bill Fairchild > Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 12:44 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Parsing (was: "New" way to do UCB lookups) > > 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: bfairch...@rocketsoftware.com * w: > www.rocketsoftware.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
