Re: NATLANG: Chinese parts of speech (or lack thereof)

Quoting John Cowan <cowan@...>:

> In ordinary Chinese writing, no blanks are used.  When writing Chinese
> in Latin letters, people can and do disagree on where the blanks should
> be placed.
With some people feeling there should be a space 'tween every pair of syllables,
which, if the pun be excused, is certainly a waste of space. I'm not sure how
they'd treat the 'r' zi.

                                                    Andreas