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> Note that texts from this time didn’t use spaces, making it harder to determine word boundaries. Paging Germans

• konstantinua00 3y ago
  it's not about _combining_ words into one better page Japanese
• BuyMyBitcoins 3y ago
  I often wonder how different personal computing and programming would be if we kept using Scriptio Continua or the particularly awkward Boustrophedon where every other line is written in the reverse direction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scriptio_continua https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scriptio_continua https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon
  • russellbeattie 3y ago
    Imsurethatwedbeabletoreadtextswrittenwithoutspacesorpunctuationitwouldjustbeabitmoredifficultforbeginnerstoparsethetextbutafteryouvegottenenoughvocabularyitdbeprettystraightforwardtoreadthoughspellcheckerswouldprobablyhaveahardertimetheoneinmybrowseriscompletelydfreakingoutoverthistextanotherthingitwouldprobablyhaveaneffedtoniswordchoicesinceyoudhavetomakesurethewordsyouchosetoputtogethercouldntbemisconstruedorambiguous. The idea of reading text backwards and bɘɿoɿɿim ɿɘɈɈɘl ʜɔɒɘ ʜɈiw ,ƨbɿɒwɿoʇ is absolutely nuts though. I'm definitely .ɈɒʜɈ Ɉqobɒ Ɉ'nbib ɘw bɒlϱ
    • timschmidt 3y ago
      Intentionally choosing words which could be misconstrued when written without spaces could make for some hilarious jokes.
• huytersd 3y ago
  For the exact opposite of this, I love what Sanskrit/Hindi does. Each complete word has a bar over it.