I often wonder how different personal computing and programming would be if we kept using Scriptio Continua or the particularly awkward Boustrophedon where every other line is written in the reverse direction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scriptio_continua

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon

Imsurethatwedbeabletoreadtextswrittenwithoutspacesorpunctuationitwouldjustbeabitmoredifficultforbeginnerstoparsethetextbutafteryouvegottenenoughvocabularyitdbeprettystraightforwardtoreadthoughspellcheckerswouldprobablyhaveahardertimetheoneinmybrowseriscompletelydfreakingoutoverthistextanotherthingitwouldprobablyhaveaneffedtoniswordchoicesinceyoudhavetomakesurethewordsyouchosetoputtogethercouldntbemisconstruedorambiguous.

The idea of reading text backwards and

bɘɿoɿɿim ɿɘɈɈɘl ʜɔɒɘ ʜɈiw ,ƨbɿɒwɿoʇ

is absolutely nuts though. I'm definitely

.ɈɒʜɈ Ɉqobɒ Ɉ'nbib ɘw bɒlϱ

Intentionally choosing words which could be misconstrued when written without spaces could make for some hilarious jokes.

For the exact opposite of this, I love what Sanskrit/Hindi does. Each complete word has a bar over it.

it's not about _combining_ words into one

better page Japanese