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scriptiocontinuaisawritingsystemthatdoesntuseanyspavesorotherdelimitersbwtweenwordseventhesentencesarewrittentogetherthereisusuallyalsonodistinctionbetweencapitalandlowercaseletterstheclassicallanguagesonlyuseduppercaseletters

thewiringstylewascommoninclassicslgreekandlatinwherethetextswereusuallyplaysthstthereaderwasusuallyfamiliarwithalresdysothewrittentextonlyfunctiomedasacuetotheactorinsomesystemsthewordswerealsowrittenatingbetweenlefttorightandrighttoleft

bytheadventofbooksthesystemsfinallyfadedawayasthedominantfunctionofthewrittentextshiftedfromplaystomoretraditionalreading

inadditiontomakingthetextextremelyhardtoreaditalsomakesthetextmoreambiguouswhenplacingthewordboundaryintodifferentplacemightproducecompletelydifferentwords

itwouldalsomakeitwaymoredifficulttowritetwohundredwordsperdayevendividingmypostintoparsgraphswhichstrictlywouldnotbeallowedthewordxounteronlusshowssixwordswrittenandihavenoideahowmanyactuslwordsihavewrittensofar

Thankfully this style of writing isn't that common anymore. It can still be found for example in WWW addresses and in code where the technical requirements don't allow spaces or certain punctuations in between words.