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    1 day ago

    Ancient Greek used all capitals, rather than the parent’s comment all lowercase. That’s more obnoxious to recognize letters in.

    IMPRETTYSUREANCIENTGREEKDIDNTHAVEANYSPACESORPUNCTUATIONITWASUPTOTHEREADERTODECIPHERWHATITSAIDMAYBETHATSWR

    EDIT: Oh, and the order of the text was reversed right-to-left in alternating lines:

    IMPRETTYSUREANCIENTGREEKDIDNTHAVEANYSPACESORPUNCTUATION
    RWSTAHTEBYAMDIASTITAHWREHPICEDOTREDAEREHTOTPUSAWTI