Centered dots for spaces
david nelson's List: Punctuation
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Jul 13, 09
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Jul 13, 09
The earliest writing had no capitalization, no spaces, and a few punctuation marks. This worked as long as the subject matter was restricted to a limited range of topics (for example, writing was initially used for recording business transactions). Expanding the use of writing to more abstract concepts required some way to disambiguate meanings. Until the 18th century, punctuation was principally an aid to reading aloud; after that time its development was as a mechanism for ensuring that the text made sense when read silently.[1]
The oldest known document that uses punctuation is the Mesha Stele (9th century BC). This employs points between the words and horizontal strokes between the sense section as punctuation. -
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Some Roman monuments might have centered dots between words
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The earliest writing had no punctuation, in fact, often had no space between words, until around the 9th century A.D
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First punctuation and spaces
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By the end of the 16th century writers of English were using most of the marks described by the younger Aldo in 1566; but their purpose was elocutionary, not syntactical.
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Punctuation for reading aloud
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Ben Jonson
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Elizabethan playwright, contemporary of Shakespeare
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Punctuation / "pointing": the word "punctuation" is derived from the Latin word "punctus," translated "point"
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Etymology
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with the exception of the punctus and the blank space, almost all of our modern marks of punctuation have come into use only since the thirteenth century
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Only word spaces and "punctus" (pauses) pre 13th c.
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