Revealing the secret history of punctuation, this tour of two thousand years of the written word, from ancient Greece to the Internet, explores the parallel histories of language and typography throughout the world and across time.
This book charts the lives of some of the most intriguing examples, from the pilcrow to the ampersand and reveals the bust and boom endured by punctuation with each new technological innovation.
Revealing the secret history of punctuation, this tour of two thousand years of the written word, from ancient Greece to the Internet, explores the parallel histories of language and typography throughout the world and across time.
Examines ancient systems of writings and the process of deciphering their inscriptions. Discusses contributions to decipherment by theorists and decipherers. Analyzes various scripts, including Palmyra script, Sassanid Persian, Egyptian Hieroglyphic, Cypriot syllabary, Ugaritic …
