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Commas, full stops, question marks, even spaces between words: these features haven't always existed in written language. The classical Romans and Greeks didn't have them, for example. A
BBC article
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I must remember to come back and read it when I have some time. It looks very interesting.
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Just read through this - it's a good read, and definitely something of interest that I hadn't thought about much - presumably this system has developed for latin and possibly greek script, I'd be interested to know how that compares to others...
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