Re: VMs: qo-words MORE

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Jacques Guy <jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In Thai spaces are inserted without regard to word
> breaks.

Most usually, words are run together (which is
only a problem for a beginning reader :-( )
and the space separates units of meaning, or
to force a line break when typing text into an
edit window as I am doing now.

> In Chinese, in Japanese, there are no word breaks.
> Sentences are written
> as continuous strings of characters.
> 
> Even in ancient Greek inscriptions there were no
> word breaks.

And what about the use of capitals. Arabic and Thai
have none, but other modern alphabetic scripts do
tend to have them, but further back in the past they 
would not have been used.
Voynichese does not (seem to) have them. Does that
help in dating the text?

Cheers, Rene 

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