On Wed, 19 May 2004 18:13:50 -0700, Weronika wrote: >As far as I know (currently taking the third term of a Japanese course, >so I may well be missing things), these are the only punctuation marks >in Japanese, and the periods normally look like little o's. Periods >work pretty much like in English and Polish. The commas are a little >vague (either that or I'm just vague on how to use them). Ah, right, >there are quotation marks too sometimes, which look like little corners: >"|_" before and _ > " |" after. The most confusing thing about Japanese is >that there generally aren't any spaces, other than in books for little >children. I just recently got to the "no-space" stage...
I learnt to speak then read and write a bit of Thai nearly 20 years ago. Thai has alphabetical characters - 70 odd of them - not the Japanese picture representations of ideas. However Thai doesn't have much of a concept of a word. It is written as a long sequence of letters with gaps for the breaks between sentences. I don't remember there being any punctuation at all in my beginner's reader, nor on things I saw while I was there. I might have missed something like quotation marks though. -- Is reading in the bathroom considered Multi-Tasking? Steph Peters, Manchester, England [EMAIL PROTECTED] Scanned by WinProxy http://www.Ositis.com/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
