A short history of punctuation

[Glaurung]

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 explains where they came from and how they developed.

[Phoenixguard09]

I must remember to come back and read it when I have some time. It looks very interesting.

[Jubal]

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...