Steve D'Aprano wrote:
I don't think that it is even a given that "atomic units of language" exist. To quote a Hindi speaker earlier in this thread, की is a letter, and yet it can be decomposed into की = क + ई, so it isn't "atomic". If letters aren't atomic, then what are?
They're like subatomic particles! All equally fundamental, but they can turn into each other. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list