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To: count-your-change

Do any of the oldest texts have any punctuation at all?


1,542 posted on 07/09/2010 8:28:18 AM PDT by Mad Dawg ("I tried being reasonable. I didn't like it." -- Dirty Harry)
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To: Mad Dawg

No


1,551 posted on 07/09/2010 9:00:29 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Obots, believing they cannot be deceived, it is impossible to convince them when they are deceived.)
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To: Mad Dawg

I don’t know of any specific ones that do, so I’ll say most older Greek manuscripts used no paragraph or sentence breaks and were written in all capitals.

I trust by “texts” you mean manuscripts.


1,556 posted on 07/09/2010 9:20:42 AM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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