Hypodiastole
Template:Short description Template:Use American English Script error: No such module "Multiple image". The hypodiastole (Greek: Template:Wikt-lang, Script error: No such module "lang"., Template:Literally), also known as a diastole,[1] was an interpunct developed in late Ancient and Byzantine Greek texts before the separation of words by spaces was common. In the Script error: No such module "Lang". then used, a group of letters might have separate meanings as a single word or as a pair of words. The papyrological hyphen (Script error: No such module "Lang".) showed a group of letters should be read together as a single word, and the hypodiastole showed that they should be taken separately. Compare "Script error: No such module "Lang"." ("whatever") to "Script error: No such module "Lang"." ("...that...").[2]
The hypodiastole was similar in appearance to the comma and was eventually entirely conflated with it. In Modern Greek, Script error: No such module "Lang". (Script error: No such module "Lang".) refers to the comma in its role as a decimal separator, and words such as Script error: No such module "Lang". are written with standard commas. A separate Unicode point, ISO/IEC 10646 standard (U+2E12) (⸒), exists for the hypodiastole but is intended only to reproduce its historical occurrence in Greek texts.[2]
References
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- ↑ Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed. "diastole, n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1895.
- ↑ a b Nicolas, Nick. "Greek Unicode Issues: Punctuation Script error: No such module "webarchive".". 2005. Accessed 7 October 2014.
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