Keywords
Book of Mormon, indication of punctuation, dictation, Nephite langauge
Abstract
Neither the extant original manuscript nor the printer’s manuscript of the Book of Mormon have any indication of punctuation. The dictation was written as it was heard, with no attempt to add the literary niceties of paragraphs and punctuation. The nature of the dictation in English cannot tell us whether the Nephite language had visual clues that helped divide ideas. Based on many early texts, it is safest to assume that it did not.
Recommended Citation
Gardner, Brant
(2020)
"Chapter 10: Final Considerations about Writing,"
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Vol. 35, Article 14.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/interpreter/vol35/iss1/14
