Hypodiastole
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Hypodiastole was developed in ancient Greek texts before the separating words by space was commonplace. It was used together with hyphen to mark how the words should be read correctly. A Hyphen was placed between words that should be read as one, while a hypodiastole was put between words that would have been otherwise incorrectly separated. E.g. «ἐστὶ,νοῦς» ("it is a mind") and «ἐστὶν,οὖς» ("it is an ear"), or «ὅ,τι» ("whatever") for «ὅτι» ("that"). The symbol looks somewhat similar to comma but has different function and has its own character in Unicode ISO/IEC 10646 standard (U+2E12) (⸒).
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