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Posted: Thu 4:05, 01 Aug 2013 Post subject: writing had no punctuation at all. Usually |
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and spread socially. How else could we come to a common understanding about what punctuation means? I'm reminded of the lovely GOOD piece on the very long history of emoticons,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], written by Oberlin English professor, Anne Trubek. It provides a pre-facto riposte to Dillon's post. So is it okay to invent punctuation marks? Absolutely. At first, writing had no punctuation at all. Usually, authors dictated their words to scribes,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and were meant to be recordings of speech. The scribes were simply transcribers, and had no license to add anything not heard by the speaker. Also, no one read silently. All writing was read aloud.A space is a punctuation mark, remember,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], so in those days, everyone used a script called scripta continua,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], which,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], as you may guessed, meant therewerenospacesbetweenwords. As more people began reading, itbecamehardertoreadthedamnedmanuscripts,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and punctuation marks were invented to ease reading aloud.The earliest marks indicated how a speaker's voice should adjust to reflect the tone of the words.
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