Re: Punctuation in Codex Bezae (on the web)

From: dalmatia@eburg.com
Date: Sun Apr 12 1998 - 11:07:53 EDT


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ATPUZZLINGAFTERMYF
IRSTINSTANCIATIONA
LAPPREHENSIONMEANI
NGWISEYOUMUSTOFCOU
RSEUNDERSTANDICANN
OWBYQUICKLYSCANNIN
GMYRESPONSETOYOURR
EPLYTHATICOULDHAVE
BEENMISTAKENBUTBOY
OBOYOSTEVEIREALLYN
NEEDAWHOLELOTMOREP
RACTICEREADINGTHIS
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ARACONVERSATIONALS
PEEDILOVEYAGEORGEB

  :-) :-)

Might could be, ya know, with their illiterate minds ~ I like to think
that the literate folks had not lost that wonderful illiterate quality
of mind of those times ~ perhaps the texts were pre-read by the reader
and pretty well committed to memory and sense prior to being read
aloud...

Just a thought ~

Happy Easter

George

Steven Cox wrote:
>
> Hi George
> Interesting question but at least in modern languages
> not having pronunciation, or even not having spaces in
> between words, (or even not having vowels), definitely
> does not affect the speed of reading outloud
> Cheers
> Steven
>
> At 23:42 98/04/11 -0700, dalmatia@eburg.com wrote:
> >I use a Sainai look-alike manuscript text [Concordant Publishing]



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