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Show DEVICE OF VENETIAN PRINTER. Aldus Manutlus Author of System of Punctuation. Punctuation by means ot stops and points, so as to Indicate the meaning mean-ing of sentences and assist the reader to a proper enunciation, Is ascribed originally to Aristophanes, a grammarian gram-marian of Alexandria, Egypt, who lived in the third century B. C. Whatever What-ever his system may have been, It was subsequently neglected and forgotten, for-gotten, but was reintroduced by Charlemagne, the various stops and symbols being designed by Warno-frled Warno-frled and Alculn. The present system of punctuation was introduced in the latter part of the fifteenth century by Aldus Manutlus, Manu-tlus, a Venetian printer, who was responsible re-sponsible for our full stop, colon, semicolon, comma, marks of interrogation inter-rogation and exclamation, parenthesis and dash, hyphen, apostrophe and quotation quo-tation marks. These were subsequently subsequent-ly copied by other printers, until their use became universal. Most ancient languages were Innocent Inno-cent of any system of punctuation. In many early manuscripts the letters are placed at equal distances apart, with no connecting link between even In the mattor of spacing, nn arrangement arrange-ment which must have rendered reading read-ing at sight somewhat difficult. |
