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Comment by dredmorbius

3 years ago

Writing is a recorded symbolic convention for the benefit of the sufficiently educated reader.

Eschewingallpunctuationforscriptocontinuaisofcourseppossiblethoughitishelltoread.Itisevendifficulttotypewithoutaddingthespacesreflexivelyifindasipostthis.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scriptio_continua>

There's a reason monks of old read aloud. It was about the only way to confirm the actual meaning of a text.