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From the article: "paleographers today identify the extinction of scriptio continua as a critical factor in augmenting the widespread absorption of knowledge in
by aredox 2y ago
From the article:
"paleographers today identify the extinction of scriptio continua as a critical factor in augmenting the widespread absorption of knowledge in the pre-Modern Era. By saving the reader the taxing process of interpreting pauses and breaks, the inclusion of spaces enables the brain to comprehend written text more rapidly."
- nequo 2y agoI_suppose_causality_would_be_difficult_to_establish_here_but_it_is_intriguing_nonetheless._A_little_space_between_words_helps_the_eye_quickly_see_word_boundaries_which_is_helpful_because_in_the_English_language_words_roughly_correspond_to_units_of_meaning.
- CRConrad 2y agoIn most languages, I'd think, not just English.