Tilted Cat Head
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from the old period....
technology always reproduces the thing it's trying to replace. so first cars looked like horseless carriages, first movies looked like plays, and so on.
The original reproduction of writing reproduced the scribbles of writing which from all historical accounts was SHORTHAND as it was since business didn't have time to write with the quill all that EXTRA stuff.
Shorthand and abbreviations are nothing new. Languages evolve. Old English is very similar to Icelandic, which is NOTHING like the Old English you'd think seem to be thinking of...
Because of limitations of printing press the "thorn" or þ and pronounced with a "th" sound, which was replaced by the Y, which was eventually replaced by the th, the 'æ' was also replaced due to typesetter limitations.
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