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WALL OF TEXT CRITS YOUR EYES FOR 9999 DAMAGE!!
You are dead!
Logos evermore and evermore.
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It's like German!
Yes, but Latin is an inflected language and the common endings help provide clues to the word breaks, whereas English doesn't provide similar capability. Additinally, word order was a different game and few Latin texts read left to right like an English sentence. I still would not want to read Caesar without some spaces, but it's a little different game than doing so in English...
yes, ap, i'm aware of that. but nevertheless it was difficult for scholars in the middle ages to translate latin because of the lack of breaks.
I'm not disagreeing that it was difficult for scholars in the middle ages to translate. The spaces were certainly one thing. So were the handwritten copies (any apparatus criticus reveals interpretation or lexigraphical differences from manuscript to manuscript), the poor lighting, absence of an OLD... My point only is that the lack of spaces in Latin is less daunting than lack of spaces in English. Still painful, I agree. :)
To be fair, I think you should've mentionned that people read out loud in the old days. Or rather, asked someone to read out loud for them to listen.
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