I feel like a complete idiot now because I just realized, on the last day of term, that Japanese doesn't have spaces between the words. I've been reading Japanese for two months and I never put that one together XD.
Anyway, I did some research and apparently this has something to do with why kanji exists (just a speculation don't trust the internet, folks). If the word is just a symbol, then you know what the word is and don't have all the words running together. I know very little kanji at the moment but I did notice this when I watched videos with Japanese subtitles (yeah...I'm weird).
This also shows that the language is a bit older or at least had more time where it was hand written. Like on my presentation "slides" I have all my sentences written out and all the words are squished together simply because I don't have a lot of space and kinda write like that anyway, but that is actually the correct way to do things.
Sothat'sinterestinganddefinitelydifferentfromEnglish.
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