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Originally Posted by nekokami
That's a great metaphor. I have no idea how well it would hold up as a theory, but I like the image a lot.
On reflection, though, it seems that this sense of low personal space is fairly common in Mediterranean countries as well, and they do put spaces between words. (That still doesn't impair the fineness of the metaphor.)
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Of course alphabet systems first existed without spaces. They were added fairly lately along with upper/lower case and punctuation. It is a maturing of the system to make it simpler to interpret.
Dale