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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (21 children)

Not legal in Canada. Your legal name must use Latin characters only. This is a sore point for indigenous people.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (13 children)

Hello my name is JohnDoe. My name only contains Latin characters, no spaces allowed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

The Romans also had spaces in between words

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I was under the impression that that was actually a medieval invention

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What was used to delineate words before the space character, then?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

The inscription on the Pantheon has dots between the words.

M·AGRIPPA·L·F·COS·TERTIVM·FECIT

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nothing but understanding of words and sentences. It was kind of a whole thing. The space character was revolutionary to increasing the spread of literacy. Relevant

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