Re: *****SPAM***** VMs: Pointing at spaces

[Jacques Guy <jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

25/02/2005 9:33:16 AM, Knox Mix <knoxmix@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


>It might be easier to demonstrate spaces are insignificant by recovering 
>the insertion rules and showing that they are not language-like.

That would lead nowhere.

First, the segmentation of continuous text into its 
constituent morphemes is a problem still unsolved. 

Next, "Insertion rules" vary from writing system to 
writing system. In Arabic for instance each letter 
"decides" if a space is needed. The letter "d" for 
instance can never connect to the next letter
and so is always followed by a break. Same with '
(the glottal stop).

Some morphemes are prefixed, some suffixed, and that
obscures the morpheme boundaries, e.g. 'al malak 
is written ' lmlk





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