Who Invented Punctuation?
CANYOUREADTHISIBETITSHARDWITHOUTPUNCTUATIONITSHARDTOREADEVENSHORTSENTENCES Can you read this? I bet it’s hard. Without punctuation it’s hard to read even short sentences. Initially, ancient Greek was written in all caps with no punctuation or spacing. We even find inscriptions from ancient Rome written in all caps with only small dots breaking up the words.
Speech, especially the eloquent and persuasive speech of politicians and elected officials, was valued more highly than the written word. But now punctuation makes all the difference. For example, the versatile “OK” can be a question (“OK?”), an agreement (“OK.”), or an exasperated exclamation (“OK!”). So, where did these punctuation...
