Amy Shira Teitel Instagram – Boustrophedon. That’s the name for this type of writing that I couldn’t get to stay on screen long enough to read it! Modern versions of Ancient Greek texts do have punctuation and markers for pronunciation, which really helps when reading it.
Another really interesting, similarly hard to wrap your head around as a native English speaker, is Hebrew having no vowels. There are dashes and dots to indicate vowels, but while you learn to read with them they aren’t common, like they’re in kids books but not adult book, and definitely not in the Torah. You just kinda have to know what the word is!
And I really do love the Oxford comma. It’s apparently not standard in the US, and my Canadian writer self can’t stand when it’s missing in a book! #author #language #history | Posted on 19/Mar/2024 20:34:42
