Shorten your text
Ancient and medieval manuscripts taught us to be economical. They taught us to make the most of limited resources. Stone and parchment were expensive, scarce, and hard to write on, so we learned to shorten our words, however long we wanted our prose to be. We invented abbreviations, ligatures and acronyms. Why write 'et' when '&' can do it for you? Why …
Keep reading with a 7-day free trial
Subscribe to Biblonia to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.