[PRL] Relevant History: Word spacing, silent reading, and cyborgs

[Mitchell Wand]

A little geeky (even for me!), but still interesting.  And who said lexical
scanning was unimportant?

Word spacing is something that we never think about, much less think about
> having been invented or having a history.The Romans almost never used it:
> Latin texts and inscriptions on buildings often ran words together (the graffiti-turned-grammar
> lesson scene <http://members.chello.se/hansdotter/romanes.html> in Monty
> Python's Life of Brian <http://www.intriguing.com/mp/lifeofbrian/>notwithstanding). But Saenger makes a compelling case that its adoption and
> diffusion in late medival Europe had tremendous ramifications in monastic
> culture, book history, and eventually intellectual and political history.
>

http://askpang.typepad.com/relevant_history/2003/06/word_spacing_si.html
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