Has the following instances in its corpus: Word With single words already in the language. Words, but which the scribes treated as single words-particularly Greek but the practice is popular with editors ofīyzantine texts, who apply it to other indefinitesĪnd compounds which Classical Greek treats as two Ὅ,τι is the only instance of the hypodiastole in Modern Is like the decimal comma, which is also used in In place, now serving to disambiguate it from theĬonjunction ὅτι. So ὅ,τι stayed written asĪ single word, with no space the hypodiastole stayed If "whatever" is a single word, noone wanted to start Ὅ,τι and ὅτι is now that the latter is unstressed). It assuredly is in Modern Greek-the distinction between εστιν ,ους = ἐστὶν οὖς "it is an ear".) But when the time cameįelt that ὅ,τι "whatever" was a single word (which (You would also put hypodiastole in lots of other In for the former: ὅ,τι, and leave it out in the Now, if you want toĭistinguish between the two using a hypodiastole,īefore the invention of spaces, you would put one Thus distinct from the cognate conjunction ὅτι "that", Was thought of as two words: ὅ τι it is writtenĪccordingly in the modern typography of Classical In Classical Greek, the indefinite pronoun "whatever" With the exception of Greek indefinite pronouns. Now, Greek uses spaces regularly to delimit words,Īnd has done so sporadically since at least the 7thĬentury (Thompson 1912:57), and systematically since That the same glyph be used for both, once the comma The hypodiastole looked likeĪ comma (Thompson 1912:62), so it was inevitable The hypodiastole was anĮarly symbol indicating word break before space was Greek, comma is arguably used as an alphabetic letter In one word of Modern Greek, and a few more of Byzantine The history of Greek and Latin punctuation, but not Was arguably anticipated several times before in Punctuation-exclamation mark, parentheses, dashes,Įllipses, quotation marks-are Renaissance innovations, Invented independently in the two scripts in theĩth century (Thompson 1912:60-61). High dot initially the comma appears to have been
#CHANGING SEMICOLON TO GREEK QUESTION MARK IN CODE FULL#
(A comment which proves how culturallyĪustralian I am.) The full stop was taken overįrom Greek by the Romans, as were the middle and Of the ellipsis and exclamation mark-shared at least Punctuation, other than the overemotive use There is little to remark on in the use of default U+2014 Em Dash U+2026 Horizontal Ellipsis U+021 Exclamation Mark U+0028 Left Parenthesis The semicolon, and (for Classical Greek) the colon. Whose function corresponds to the question mark, The only variation is displayed in the characters Script languages in their choice of quotation marks. Punctuation, and the variation displayed by Latin Overall, Greek punctuation is the same as Latin script
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