Scriptio continua
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Scriptio continua, also known as scriptura continua or scripta continua, is a style of writing without spaces or other marks between the words or sentences. The form also lacks punctuation, diacritics
Vergilius Augusteus, Georgica 141ff, written in capitalis quadrata and in scriptio continua
Silent reading
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Silent reading is reading done silently, or without speaking the words being read.
Scriptio continua
…gathered for exile'. Thus, readers had to be much more cognisant of the context to which the text referred. Over time, the current system of rapid silent reading for information replaced the older, slower, and more dramatic performance-based reading, and word dividers and punctuation became more beneficial to…
A Catholic monk reading in a monastery library