08-11-2016, 09:53 PM
Well... I suppose not... since like I said it's not hard to imagine a system in which a certain letter is more common than a space, but I don't think this is really the most useful way to determine whether the spaces are meaningful or not.
Really, I don't see why this issue is controversial. Just about everyone will agree that letters have certain places within words where they appear. q goes at the beginning, n goes at the end, etc. Since spaces are precisely that which define and delimit words, it follows directly from this that the spaces are meaningful. E.g. saying "q only appears at the beginning of a word" is functionally the same as saying "q only follows a space". And then of course the one-word labels confirm that this is correct.
Really, I don't see why this issue is controversial. Just about everyone will agree that letters have certain places within words where they appear. q goes at the beginning, n goes at the end, etc. Since spaces are precisely that which define and delimit words, it follows directly from this that the spaces are meaningful. E.g. saying "q only appears at the beginning of a word" is functionally the same as saying "q only follows a space". And then of course the one-word labels confirm that this is correct.
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