gearoidoutremer:

sarahreesbrennan:

lavender-lily:

penfairy:

Today I found out we owe most of our punctuation to the medieval Irish. They’d had no experience with Latin before, so when these Latin manuscripts started showing up written in all caps with no spaces between the words looking like a brick wall of hot nonsense, the Irish sighed and said “give me that feckin quill” and they did such a good job of editing the texts and producing readable copies that their conventions kind of stuck with us through the ages

Irish pride woot

my isle of saints and scholars

… really pedantic saints

Scholars and monks in Early Medieval Ireland actually went so far as devising their own literary dialect of Latin, Hiberno-Latin. Which they loved to use for very very nerdy wordplay.