'Designing Language and Civilization: A True Story of Awaking The Creative Minority' language design
Code is the world’s most powerful language but language is a common thing. More than 7,000 human languages are spoken today, over 30,000 in human history, and there are 300+ computer languages. However, great creativity, design, and literature are uncommon things. The same language, such a malleable thing, will not even stay consistent over centuries. The true story of how the space between words came into being, this universal design motif, serves as a precedent for achieving the uncommon.
Ancient writings of Mesopotamia, Phoenicia, and Israel did not employ vowels so the separation between words was retained. For the antique Mediterranean world, the adoption of vowels and ‘scriptura continua’ went hand in hand. Word separation in written works was absent among Ancient Greek and Latin grammarians. The Romans discarded word separation as superfluous and substituted ‘Scriptura continua’ for interpunct-separated script in the 2nd century.
Previously, the task of separating written text had been for half a millennium a cognitive function of the reader. Word separation, by altering the neurophysiological process of reading, simplified the act of reading, enabling both the medieval and modern reader to receive silently and simultaneously the text and encoded information that facilitates both comprehension and oral performance promoting rapid visual reading.
Saenger records a ‘culture of resistance’ to separated script despite being an elegant and superior solution. This plays like a sin against good design. It is guaranteed that creative minorities will meet resistance as it threatens the perceived power and status quo of a few. Milestones of word separation spread to include Middle Age Benedictine reform, notably at Monte Cassino, where it became standard practice, paving the way for its prevalence and growth across Europe.
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