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Spelling and punctuation were much less standardized in the 19th century than they are today. We look at those symbols with a modern eye and we recognize patte
by verdant 17y ago
Spelling and punctuation were much less standardized in the 19th century than they are today. We look at those symbols with a modern eye and we recognize patterns that we use today. But the way we interpret those symbols would likely be nothing similar to the way a person from 1862 would.
- DXL 17y agoKind of like how very religious people see images of the Virgin Mary in rotten pieces of cheese.
- mahmud 17y agoWhen I read a Lord Byron biography, and after seeing his prose in correspondences he struck me as a script kiddie, until I heard on NPR recently that they used contraptions to save on expensive ink and fit more words into the precious page.