deadcatwithaflamethrower:

haruka89:

lawrencearabia:

macdicilla:

ceuulusuoluptatemcapit:

tanoraqui:

imaginarycircus:

terpsikeraunos:

caecilius-est-pater:

thoodleoo:

no punctuation we read like romans

NOPUNCTUATIONORLOWERCASEORSPACESWEREADLIKEROMANS

INTER·PVNCTVATION·WE·INSCRIBE·LIKE·ROMANS

words doesn’t classical matter order in greek;

we, in a manner akin to that of a man who once was, in Rome, an orator of significant skill, who was then for his elegance of speech renowned and now for his elaborate structure of sentences cursed by generations of scholars of Latin, the language which he spoke and we now study, Cicero, write, rather than by any efficiency, functionality, or ease of legibility have our words, our honors, the breaths of our hearts, be besmirched.

The fact that this has yet to devolve into boustrophedon is a miracle… or a challenge. I’m looking at you @terpsikeraunos @macdicilla @labellamordens

I’m up to it

Not many jnſtances of Punctuation – but for many Daſhes – et words Capitaliz’d for emphavſis, but not logicaly – ſpeeling and word Endings varied Gratelie – and the long S – ſ – vſed in at the ſtart and Centre of wordes – & the short “s” vſed only at the end – as with the U and V, and the I and J – but v and j only at the ſtart of wordes (we diſtinguishe not between Vouels and Conſonants, only decoratiue Letteres). Ye letter “y” being in lookes cloſe to an Olde letter “þ” which is vſed as “th” – Y may be vſed in the place of TH – but only ſparingly – and ſtill Pronounc’d the ſame as TH. Long and rambling ſentences – ſeeminglie without end – a paragraph can conſiſt of One whole ſentence, and ſhort ſentences are rare – we ſcribe like hiſtorical Modern English – and other european Languages.

@deadcatwithaflamethrower I know you have fun bitching about the evolution of English, but at least it’s not like this?

…Am I gonna disappoint you by saying that it’s actually EXACTLY like this?

Old English did not:

• Give a fuck about punctuation
• Give a fuck about sentence structure
• Give a fuck about word order; the declension, conjugation, and genus of each word told people everything they needed to know, punk rock, oi oi oi
• Give a fuck if the gender they were giving a word actually matched the gender of the object/persontitle or not (wife is gender neutral despite being a woman’s title)
• Give a fuck about consistency in their alphabet: Letters often did not look like they sounded because it was half-Latin and half old Brythonic runes
• Give a fuck about vowels and consonents having devoted sounds until late, late, late in the language’s period, right before it became a dead language
• Give a fuck about letter direction in regards to writing on monuments; this was a thing that happened sometimesand it is still driving linguists to drink because they don’t know if it was done to fuck with people or if it had religious significance, or both

tl;dr The Mediterranean influence basically made certain that everyone in the West had THE SAME BAD HABITS in regards to writing shit down.