RE: LOGO-L> Language vs Visual

[Yehuda Katz <yehuka@beitberl.beitberl.ac.il>]

Mike Doyle wrote:
... all written characters are defined by mark/space contrasts 
be they Oriental pictograms, Arabic script or Roman characters.

In Arabic, there are no spaces between individual characters within a word (except after 5 out of 28 letters). A non-Arabic reader can't figure out how many chracters (letters) are there in a given written word.

Spaces are only between individual word.

[[Yehuda]]----------


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