I’m curious how much more difficult it would be to learn to read in a largely illiterate world without many documents around. While having the additional burden of identifying words within one long string of characters.
Google tells me it’s called Scriptio Continua and the first documents to use spaces and punctuation were later Bibles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papyrus_75?wprov=sfti1
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/-YQMdlv22BA8jnWvqnca...
I’m curious how much more difficult it would be to learn to read in a largely illiterate world without many documents around. While having the additional burden of identifying words within one long string of characters.
Google tells me it’s called Scriptio Continua and the first documents to use spaces and punctuation were later Bibles.
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scriptio_continua?wprov=sf...
I know it’s common in some Asian languages but their character systems account for it better.