Talk:Scriptio continua

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Okaysolipogramisdefinedinalipogrambutthisisridiculous! -PierreAbbat

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Ancient Greek was also written boustrophedon, too, wasn't it? Want to try that on the Article page?  :-) -- Zoe

Don't tempt me. (I have a half-shelf of books in Greek, and I could probably fake the coding.)

On a more serious note: does Thai have separate upper and lower case scripts? Vicki Rosenzweig

Vicki, nope: Thai_alphabet#Orthography :) babbage (talk) 06:55, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

I added a section regarding the background of how scriptio continua has evolved over time, which was inspired by the "see also" section where "boustrophedon" was mentioned. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kwu930 (talk • contribs) 21:46, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

English sample

It makes no sense to give an English sample of scriptio continua. Scriptio continua only worked because the ancient Roman and Greek spellings were most predominantly phonemic, but modern English spelling is definitly not. -- j. 'mach' wust | ✑ 07:32, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

I partially agree. I see no point to such a long English sample. The English sample should be just a few words long (like the Chinese example), to give a feel of what it would be like if we used it in English. --61.68.108.167 07:15, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

It is illustrative and helpful for the reader to understand. -- Stbalbach 15:01, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

It's also rather funny :) babbage (talk) 06:56, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Disagree. Removed. —Wiki Wikardo 14:50, 6 May 2016 (UTC)

I think this example is relevant and should be kept. Though the fundamental attributes of scriptio continua are lost in its english usage, it is important to see how this ancient style of writing is utilized in our modern culture. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.239.204.18 (talk) 04:07, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

Ironic

I think it's ironic that "scriptio continua" is written in two words. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.9.121.168 (talk) 10:33, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

Except it isn't ifyouredoingitproperly. — LlywelynII 14:54, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Name

Will probably have to change eventually, but not quite yet: Ngram and Scholar here (en), here (en), and here (en). — LlywelynII 14:52, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Small but important change in Roman part

I changed two words:

The reader would typically already have memorized the text through an instructor, had memorized where the breaks were, and the reader almost always often read aloud, usually to an audience in a kind of reading performance, using the text as a cue sheet.

The original wording seems to have implied a partial acceptance of Balogh's theory that the Romans did not practice silent reading at all, except by some rare individuals (such as St. Ambrose). However, this theory, which reigned for 70 years from 1927 to 1997, seems to have been throroughly disproved by now and it is realized that the Romans did practice silent reading. However, there was a lot of reading in groups of learned (or affecting learnedness) upper-class litterati. The authority for my change is the book ``Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire by William Johnson (OUP, 2010), particularly Chapter 1. Bazuz (talk) 01:11, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

Chinese version

Actually it makes more sense to talk about ancient Chinese that are written from up to down without any punctuation. 89.204.130.252 (talk) 00:12, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

"Chinese also lacked any form of pronunciation until the 20th century..." Should it say "punctuation" instead "pronunciation"? 188.2.192.212 (talk) 16:46, 20 October 2017 (UTC)

TETERORO

Just for giggles, a cute sophomore pun: TETEROROMAMANUNUDADATETELALATETE. ◀ Sebastian 10:18, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

Low quality example image

The linked image is quite hard to read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vergilius_Augusteus,_Georgica_141.jpg and not because of the scriptio continua, but because it's low resolution. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.20.128.15 (talk) 04:45, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

digits

While numbers up to four digits are recommended for separating three digits, there are some of them are not. These include most Slavic languages, Spanish, Hungarian and Swiss German. These languages do not use a delimiter to separate numbers in four digits. English sometimes follow this practice.

This paragraph has, as we say, multiple issues. To separate three digits, we use numbers of up to four digits? (Where can it end?!) The languages named are examples of numbers up to four digits? —Tamfang (talk) 06:09, 22 September 2024 (UTC)