The End.
9 years ago
Monday, March 24, 2008
standing on the street yelling at the stars...
the other night after a show i was standing around on the road somewhere shouting "SIMON!!! I am SIMON!!!" i think maybe i was having a game of simon says in my mind and forgot to tell anyone. I want to learn the history of punctuation, can any one help? i think it comes from latin maybe? i know that capital letters used to be used to identify a new sentence in the time before punctuation and that in sanscript and ancient greek there is no punctuation at all just an endless stream of letters. i fixed my bike too.
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Didn't you study all of this?
iirc Latin had full stops, but no capitalisation or anything else.
I do not know.
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuation:
[The Greeks were using punctuation marks consisting of vertically arranged dots - usually two (c.f. the modern colon) or three - in around the 5th century BC. Greek playwrights (e.g., Euripides and Aristophanes) used symbols to distinguish the ends of phrases in written drama: this essentially helped the play's cast to know when to pause. In particular, they used three different symbols to divide speeches, known as commas (indicated by a centred dot), colons (indicated by a dot on the base line), and periods (indicated by a raised dot).]
There you go.
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