Re: Grammar

Yeah, Robbie would be the one to ask, but to my knowledge ancient Greek
used no punctuation at all -- just text straight across the page.
Biblical Greek, for that matter, was written the same. Punctuation was
added after the fact by those preparing the texts.

No Idea why they'd use a semi-colon for a question mark. Or who did
that.

Robbie?

Jim

Scottie Bowman wrote:

> The lads in 2a, NYCASD are, contrary to my forebodings,
> a jolly lucky lot; they're about to encounter the most lucid
> - & thereby most seductive - of instructors.
>
> But why, I cry with plaintive self-pity, did no one take up
> my own little nugget about the semi-colon as Greek question
> mark? I thought that was extraordinary. Did no one else?
> Really?
>
> I believe lower case alphas & betas & so on only appeared
> in Christian times, even Mediaeval, & that the ancient Hellenes
> wrote the whole lot down in capitals & even without gaps
> betweeen the words. So when were punctuation marks first
> used?
>
> For goodness sake, Robbie, where are you?
>
> Scottie B.
>
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