Timeline for Isn't a language where a rule is applied everywhere always overly redundant?
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| Dec 13, 2017 at 15:29 | history | edited | Sir Cornflakes |
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| Feb 18, 2016 at 11:57 | comment | added | fdb | According to your own link (the wikipedia entry on the Ninde language) this claim is completely wrong. The n- prefix seems to be a fossilised article before inanimate nouns only. | |
| Feb 18, 2016 at 8:30 | answer | added | Sir Cornflakes | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 18, 2016 at 8:06 | vote | accept | Bobson Dugnutt | ||
| Feb 18, 2016 at 7:55 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Feb 18, 2016 at 7:31 | comment | added | curiousdannii♦ | Closing as too broad sorry: what exactly counts as an example of this isn't defined clearly enough. | |
| Feb 17, 2016 at 21:59 | answer | added | user6726 | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 17, 2016 at 21:20 | comment | added | brass tacks | I'm not saying it's necessary information, but it would convey some information in principle. Ways natural languages actually convey word boundaries are varied and generally not absolute: linguistics.stackexchange.com/a/9907/5581 | |
| Feb 17, 2016 at 21:17 | comment | added | Bobson Dugnutt | People using other languages surely do not need the signal for new word is now beginning, even though they don't speak without spaces either? Or is there some subtle way that this information is conveyed (without the use of an omnipresent 'n')? | |
| Feb 17, 2016 at 21:13 | history | edited | Bobson Dugnutt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 17, 2016 at 21:10 | comment | added | brass tacks | It would contain information about where words start and stop. People don't speak with spaces. I know what you're trying to say, but it's hard for me to think of a rule that would convey absolutely zero information. A lot of agreement is redundant, but usually there are also some cases where it can disambiguate a sentence. | |
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| Feb 17, 2016 at 21:01 | history | asked | Bobson Dugnutt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |