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The characters we think of as lower case were starting to take familiar forms around the 3rd century, but they were just the handwritten form of the language. O
by Talanes 6y ago
The characters we think of as lower case were starting to take familiar forms around the 3rd century, but they were just the handwritten form of the language. One set of letters with clear sharp lines that can be worked into stone, and another with curves that can be quickly handwritten.
- thaumasiotes 6y ago> One set of letters with clear sharp lines that can be worked into stone This was never a goal; look at B ϴ O P Φ Ψ Ω, or on the Latin end C G Q R S. Inscriptions are very formal; you carve the letters you have no matter what they look like. There was never any difficulty carving curves. Handwriting is informal; you write whatever you find easiest.