Timeline for Are there large discrepancies between what Chinese consider to be words?

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May 18, 2015 at 8:52	answer	added	alex00zoe		timeline score: 3
May 15, 2015 at 19:19	comment	added	user4452		Word boundaries are clear from the spoken language, as it is in many Western languages. Here, English is an analytic language that often splits words into components (as in "ice hockey" rather than "icehockey"), but this is not true for most other Germanic or Roman languages. Simularly, when rendering Chinese into Pinyin, word formation follows the spoken language: qingwa, daxuesheng, yidianr, keke-banban. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin#Orthography
May 12, 2015 at 16:18	history	tweeted			twitter.com/#!/StackChinese/status/598160451202060288
May 12, 2015 at 15:50	answer	added	flaudre		timeline score: 5
May 12, 2015 at 14:14	comment	added	Alex		As Drunken Master suggested, many smart phone dictionary app have some sort of associative function that 'guess' what you're trying to type next, thus the words / terms shown is not necessary words
May 12, 2015 at 12:10	comment	added	imrek		1) I would not rely on a smart phone dictionary app. The data for such apps might come from dubious sources. 2) Just because something is listed in a dictionary, that doesn't mean that's a word. Dictionaries list common expressions, too, which are common combinations of words.
May 12, 2015 at 11:55	history	asked	user2493	CC BY-SA 3.0