Until recently, I wasn’t aware that Arabic & Hebrew both rarely (if ever) used punctuation. How do sentences manage to not run into each other? Apparently its usage is a more modern occurence.
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Punctuation was invented to tell the reader when to pause it was a method to make text read more like speech you will note that this comment is written without any punctuation but it is still entirely readable albeit a tad confusing to your brain that is used to it
All written languages had to develop had to develop punctuation at some point Arabic and Hebrew are old enough languages that they largely predate the invention of punctuation
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