Some souls who are borderline literate write hyphen-like marks (or
centered dots?) instead of spaces as word separators when writing
English. I'm wondering why; is this a holdover from past millennia, an
extremely persistent custom? In my quite-modest knowledge of Anglo-
Saxon/Old English and (even less of) Norman French, afaik, those
languages used spaces as word separators.

Considering the personalities of the very few people I have known who
do this, it's possible that the practice has been passed down through
many generations, not eliminated by formal education. (IIrc, in one
instance, it was someone whose primary language was Spanish.)

I'm not citing this to imply that these were inferior as people, to be
sure. They were not.

Nicholas Bodley |@| Waltham, Mass.
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