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[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

The Romans also had spaces in between words

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

I was under the impression that that was actually a medieval invention

[–] el_abuelo@programming.dev 1 points 55 minutes ago

This comment made me learn. Thank you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scriptio_continua

[–] Backlog3231@reddthat.com 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

What was used to delineate words before the space character, then?

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Nothing but understanding of words and sentences. It was kind of a whole thing. The space character was revolutionary to increasing the spread of literacy. Relevant

[–] dch82@lemmy.zip 9 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

But did they have lowercase?

EDIT: Hello my name is JOHN DOE. Only latin characters allowed

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

But did they have ~~lowercase~~ english language?

Salve! John Doe nomen meum est.

Only latin ~~characters~~ allowed

(That's all the latin I remember from school back then)