{"id":38827,"date":"2013-09-27T19:21:30","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T01:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/27\/alas-the-pilcrow.html"},"modified":"2013-09-27T20:11:32","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T02:11:32","slug":"alas-the-pilcrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/27\/alas-the-pilcrow.html","title":{"rendered":"Alas, the Pilcrow"},"content":{"rendered":"
The pilcrow is the technical name for what most folks think of as a "paragraph mark." \u00a0The history of its rise, and fall (except in "show format" modes of word processors and redlined remarks by professors) is actually an interesting look into the development and evolution of punctuation in general.<\/div>\n

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The Rise and Fall of the Pilcrow, Part I<\/a>
\n The orthographic world of ancient Greece was a sparse old place. When reading a contemporary manuscript, a literate Greek of Homer\u2019s time would be faced with an UNBROKENSTREAMOF\u200bLETTERS, all uppercase (because at that time there was no other case), with lines running alternately left-to-right and then right-to-left across the page…\n <\/p>\n

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The pilcrow is the technical name for what most folks think of as a "paragraph mark." \u00a0The history of its rise, and fall (except in "show format" modes of word processors and redlined remarks by professors) is actually an interesting look into the development and evolution of punctuation in general. 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