Barry Gershenfeld wrote:
Say, exactly, the, same, thing, with, clear, breaks, in,
between, each, word.
And it's amazing how quickly they get it.
This is the point in the discussion where I point out that Morse code is
often taught this way, with longer spaces between characters, but the
characters themselves not stretched out. Thus, one learns to hear the
proper sound of the characters as they appear normally.
On the flip side, I'm sure the reason why spaces didn't used to exist in
writing is that they typically don't exist in speech. But inflections
and such didn't exist in print either, even though it *clearly* does in
speech. I'm betting that the conventions of punctuation and such came
about to try to approximate it.
idonotknowwhocameupwiththebrightideatoputspacesbetweenwordsbutiamtrulygratefulthatitcaughton.
Ralph
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