> I learnt to speak then read and write a bit of Thai nearly 20 years ago. > Thai has alphabetical characters - 70 odd of them - not the Japanese picture > representations of ideas.
Actually, Japanese has two different syllabic alphabets with about 50 characters, plus thousands of "kanji" (the really complicated Chinese-like ones). > However Thai doesn't have much of a concept of a > word. It is written as a long sequence of letters with gaps for the breaks > between sentences. I don't remember there being any punctuation at all in > my beginner's reader, nor on things I saw while I was there. I might have > missed something like quotation marks though. That's very interesting. Even though it doesn't use spaces, Japanese does have a pretty clear concept of a word - or maybe they just made it up to teach to foreigners ;-) Weronika To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
