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Comment by ronjakoi

2 days ago

English is the only language I know of that allows spaces in compound words at all. It's a very peculiar feature of English orthography.

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Timwi  18 hours ago

Mandarin written in pinyin comes to mind as another example. Do you discount that because pinyin is not the primary writing system used for that language?

  • ronjakoi  6 hours ago

    Nah I just didn't know anything about Mandarin really

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