Why Everyone in Europe Writes the Same?
You ever wonder why the French, Germans, Italians, Spaniards, and even the Finns—who really had no business doing so—write with the same set of 26 letters? No matter the accent, dialect, or grammatical acrobatics, they’re all marching to the same script. A, B, C, rinse, repeat. One alphabet. Half a continent. And a trail of conquest, religion, bureaucracy, and accidental genius to explain it all. The Alphabet That Conquered a Continent Blame the Romans It started, like so many European habits, with the Romans. They didn’t invent the Latin alphabet—no, they borrowed it, shamelessly, from the Etruscans, who pinched it from the Greeks, who swiped it from the Phoenicians . Originality wasn’t the point. Longevity was. The Latin alphabet began as a tool of empire. The Romans brought roads, baths, and indoor shouting matches—and they brought their writing with them. Veni, vidi, scripsi. I came, I saw, I wrote in capital letters and didn’t bother with spaces. They carved it into stone....