• m4xie
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    1 month ago

    How do you misspell something before standardised spelling?

    • takeheart@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 month ago

      There was some degree of standardization. Especially for important legal and religious texts alteration, even if accidental, was considered a sin/vice.

      Scribes very often simply had to produce 1:1 copies of existing texts. So the standard was right in front of them.