Le jeudi 30 avril 2020 à 10:03 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit : > > Old human languages did not use word separators like space in > writing, because "everyone knew" where one word started and the next > finished. Even scholars that spent their life studying one of those > past civilizations find them endlessly confusing by today’s > standards. Of course past civilizations had other constrains. It is expensive to carve a separator on your stone tablet. Physical space on the obelisk you carried up from another region entirely is at a premium. But, fun fact, the Egyptians did make an exception for the ruler names (can’t get subjects to confuse where the ruler name starts and ends), and this exception is the sole reason we can read ancient Egyptian today (Champollion’s breakthrough started with the nicely separated Pharao names). -- Nicolas Mailhot _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
