That Sire, shall be my new username!! Many thanks!
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In general, the Romans and mediaeval writers didn't use punctuation at all, or spaces between words, which makes reading many of the texts from the era an absolute pain, above and beyond it being in Latin already.@tmacspurs Completely out the blue & very old but quick question - despite how naive it may sound - in Latin, do they use full stops for sentence breaks, as we do with roman numerals? Thanks
In general, the Romans and mediaeval writers didn't use punctuation at all, or spaces between words, which makes reading many of the texts from the era an absolute pain, above and beyond it being in Latin already.
I mean, look at this, it's ridiculous:.
WE LOST V-I ...BLOODY V-I TO THOSE CUNTUM!
IF THEY AUDERE PUT IN ANOTHER SHITE PERFORMANCE LIKE THAT THIS SEASON, I'M THROWING THEM TO THE LIONS!
AVBXMII OUT!
Thats like old school DavSpurs level ranting.In general, the Romans and mediaeval writers didn't use punctuation at all, or spaces between words, which makes reading many of the texts from the era an absolute pain, above and beyond it being in Latin already.
I mean, look at this, it's ridiculous:
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They did sometimes use an interpunct (·) to separate·words·like·this, but this pretty much died out by later periods.
In the modern era, you tend to write Latin using the punctuation system of your own language, all in lower case except for proper nouns, e.g. servus Bregans ab horto tractus est.
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He made a brief cameo here back in September!
That is the point. Learning Latin now is for reading Latin texts, not for conversation. That's why it doesn't matter how you pronounce it.
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Did you know that's not a real latin passage? Some words are made up, so that it looks more like normal text.
Knowledge is power.
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