What can’t the internet handle in 2022? Apostrophes

Re:What can’t the internet handle in 2022? Apostrophes by ly3xqhl8g9 on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @03:05AM (#33077367)

The Romans wrotewithoutspaces as in "continuous script" [1], however they·did·use·the·interpunct for delineation on inscriptions. In order to have spaces in domain names we would need to use another sign, such as • [2], to separate words and avoid ambiguity.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scriptio_continua

[2] The bullet • (U+2022) alt code is 7, or Opt + 8 on Mac. The interpunct · (U+00B7) alt code is 250, or Shift + Opt + 9 on Mac. Rather inconvenient for the regular user.

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Re:What can’t the internet handle in 2022? Apostrophes by OJFord on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @04:26AM (#33077756)

Is that ever ambiguous in Latin, or is there enough variation in declensions and conjugations (and enough of them) that the word endings are always clear?

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Re:What can’t the internet handle in 2022? Apostrophes by ly3xqhl8g9 on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @05:12AM (#33078019)

Quote from Wikipedia: 'For example, a phrase written in scriptio continua as collectamexiliopubem may be interpreted as collectam ex Ilio pubem, meaning "a people gathered from Troy", or collectam exilio pubem, "a people gathered for exile". Thus, readers had to be much more cognisant of the context to which the text referred.' As in everything, context rules over content.

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