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

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Sunday, August 8, 2004, 17:22
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