On That Disgraceful, Disreputable, (Wonderful) Form of Punctuation: The Parenthesis

2 months ago by cm0002 to c/typography

Shakespeare and friends would call punctuation “distinctions,” according to the Latin tradition, or “pointing,” because of the medieval practice of placing dots or points at different levels of the…
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