Punctuation
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punctuation-203-14676090
title:
Punctuation
text:
Punctuation marks are marks indicating how a piece of written text should be read and, consequently, understood. The oldest known examples of punctuation marks were found in the Mesha Stele from the 9th century BC, consisting of points between the words and horizontal strokes between sections. The alphabet-based writing began with no spaces, no capitalization, no vowels, and with only a few punctuation marks, as it was mostly aimed at recording business transactions. Only with the Greek playwrig
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encyclopedia
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Marks to indicate pacing of written text
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuation
date created:
2001-08-07T19:30:50Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T18:35:15Z
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