I thought my writing peeps might enjoy this article. https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20150902-the-mysterious-origins-of-punctuation
"For as long as anyone could remember, the Greeks had written their texts so that their letters ran together withnospacesorpunctuation and without any distinction between lowercase and capitals." ... And today it's all coming back in the form of text messaging. Full circle...
itsnotreallyallthathardtounderstandasentencewithoutspacesorpuncutationbuticanseehowtheymightcomeinhandy
yuo cna aslo mses up letetr plamecent in wrods adn is't still pettry esay to undretsnad, Bset touhgh if you keep frist and lsat leretts wehre tehy blenog.
SYE, OEWHEVR FI YOU EJUBLM ETHM NI A SMNHCYVILEOEREP ADN LHOUYGOTHR DDSEIEORDR SIHFONA, HTE XEEMSEL CEEMOB INOYBADECRLS RMOE LUFFIDCTI OT ESATNAIRC
InthethirdcenturyBCElettersandwordswerejumbledtogetherwithabandon. Peridos put a full stop to that with the nominative period and his great friend, Commus, helped to bring pause. The possession of this knowledge was doubtful until Apostrophes helped to determine it, and in a "landmark speech" his eponymous punctuation mark had them doubled up. The great age of punctuation was upon us. It led to Colonus stacking one of Peridos’ “periods” upon another to form the colon: "that'll separate the men from the boys". Deemed too strong, Colonus' mark sometimes stacked the period upon one of Commus’ commas; this softened it. Hyphenes completed the lingual-transformation. He said that it would make ‘em dash to read – and it did. Good find @AntPoems - thank you for sharing