Re: Moraic codas [was Re: 'Yemls Morphology]

Mangiat wrote:

> When I
> started studying English in the Elementary School we were told to avoid
> writing a word on two lines because of the problems engendered by
> syllabification...

Wise advice.

> so I've grown up without knowing how Englishmen actually
> break up words.

We mostly leave it to trained editors and computer programs, neither
of which is infallible.  How is a poor program to know that it's
noth-ing, but ba-thing?  Furthermore, this is yet another of the points
where British and American disagree: pro-duct vs. prod-uct, e.g.

> Amongst all the languages I've some knowledge of, English is surely the one
> with the most difficult system.

Thai is worse, because it doesn't use spaces between words but has

strict rules which depend on knowing the morphology.

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