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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

The Paragraph, Part 2

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

Social Sciences, Science, Life Sciences, Natural Sciences

4.36K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss the standard nugget of textual thought: the paragraph.

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0:00.0

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1:34.4

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of I Heart Radio.

1:44.4

Hey you, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, my name is Robert Lamb.

1:47.6

And I'm Joe McCormick and we're back with part two of our series on the paragraph.

1:52.5

Yes, the writing convention, the paragraph, as used in prose.

1:57.6

In the last episode, of course, if you haven't heard that yet, you should go check that out first.

2:01.9

But in the last episode, we especially focused on the history of the paragraph, talking about the old Greek and Latin manuscripts style of scriptio-continua,

2:11.7

which is just a big, all-messletters with no case differences, no punctuation between sentences, and no spaces between words.

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