Monday, August 13, 2012

Space

The·Romans·conquered·their·world·with·only·the·interpunct
They·had·no·spaces
No·other·punctuation
Just·a·single·dot·to·separate·words

ThenaroundAD200theydroppedtheinterpunct
Allthewordsrantogether
Therewasnovisualindicationofwherewordsbeganorended

It wasn't until the dark ages that Western man invented the space

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

semper ubi sub ubi

Unknown said...

Wow, that's really interesting.

Craig Brandenburg said...

Anonymous— Some people disagree.

Chad— Yep.