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Old 2009-01-05, 22:56   Link #1875
7thMethuselah
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Originally Posted by iLney View Post
Ah, I see. One more question.

If you write "この語句は不分明です" for example, without any space between, will it cause confusions? Like ....の.....は..... In this case, I recognize <kono> but what happens in other cases?
The japanese don't use spaces at all . The structure of a sentence is easy to recognise thanks to the kanji. The kaji make up the core building blocks if you like : the nouns, the verbs etc. The hiragana connect them to give the sentence a meaning, I'm referring to particles which point out the function of words in a sentence, and the hiragana used to conjugate verbs and words. As such in a full japanese text it is very easy to see where one words ends and where the next starts.
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