Talk:ab ante
Latest comment: 1 year ago by Nicodene
@Nicodene: I'm not sure I see the point of adding "alternative representation" after alternative spellings, it seems redundant (by definition any alternative form is an alternative representation) and it's not done anywhere else. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 02:21, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
- @Al-Muqanna I'm open to any other way of phrasing it. My main concern is conveying that writing ab ante or abante is a modern typographical choice. Nicodene (talk) 02:23, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
- @Nicodene: It's not purely modern typography since when we're talking about e.g. the Vulgate manuscript tradition referenced here, that extends through the Middle Ages and word spacing conventions developed from around the 8th to 10th centuries. Since stuff like "ab ante" is still present in Medieval Latin ([1]), people by that point writing their own Latin texts were deliberately choosing certain spellings. But if it's just about the lack of word spacing in early manuscripts, then it seems redundant to specify in any case—that applies to any variation in spacing. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 02:38, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
- @Al-Muqanna Fair enough. Feel free to remove any or all of the alt-forms. Nicodene (talk) 02:42, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
- @Nicodene: It's not purely modern typography since when we're talking about e.g. the Vulgate manuscript tradition referenced here, that extends through the Middle Ages and word spacing conventions developed from around the 8th to 10th centuries. Since stuff like "ab ante" is still present in Medieval Latin ([1]), people by that point writing their own Latin texts were deliberately choosing certain spellings. But if it's just about the lack of word spacing in early manuscripts, then it seems redundant to specify in any case—that applies to any variation in spacing. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 02:38, 30 November 2022 (UTC)