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frollogaston 5 hours ago

Kinda font-related, it's throwing me off how every V in the Latin texts show as U. I don't like how they modernized the spellings in school, but if you're not doing that, aren't they all V?

Also most of the word popups use different spellings, like "iam" becomes "jam".

retrac 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Using either spaces or miniscule letters, is anachronistic for both classical Latin and Greek. They only had a single case in antiquity and didn't usually mark word boundaries.

For example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Trajan_inscription_duoton... (Latin as typically carved in stone)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herculanean_Rolls_-_... (Greek as typically written on papyrus)

mkehrt 26 minutes ago | parent [-]

Sort of. Romans didn't handwrite like that. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_cursive . Note that the "u" character in both ancient and late ancient Roman cursive is more like the modern "u".

(Source: not an expert in any way)