scribes

And they would write it all down and take it away with them, like a bunch of scribes.

Gemnote currently has about 20 to 25 scribes throughout the country, who are paid per card completed.

It grieves me to think of how much knowledge has been lost due to scribes not getting around to copying texts.

As today there are no more monastic scribes, there won't be coders anymore.

Who were those scribes who wife each of those letters with a precision which would be the envy of an 80s dot-matrix printer?

If not for the patient and curious scribes of medieval Islam, many significant works from Ancient Greece and Rome would have been lost forever.

Left handed Jewish scribes (they write with a quill and ink) have a great advantage because they don't move their hand over the fresh ink.

People recited both from scribes as well as from memory.

I don't think printing is a good example, there were not that many scribes around who were suddenly put out of work.

This is software, not ancient manuscripts written by scribes on now crumbling vellum - there is no excuse for there to be one canonical copy of anything.

For thousands of years, scribes were a separate profession.

Both were both transmitted orally and through scribes.

Formal meetings with scribes and reviewers and procedures and checklists are not the same as "here, check out this patch and merge it if you like it".

In short, as Jesus said: "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!

When you make post-it note or shopping list, you probably don't think to yourself: "Hmm, I'm being a scribe here, I wonder what real scribes use to make high-quality notes..."

For example, "If a certain profession needs a document, it's much more efficient for specialist scribes to consult with domain experts, write that document, and sell it into the industry", but most in this industry can't/don't need to read: how will 'the industry' benefit from documents if they can't read?

Scribes may have altered the word by exaggerating the upstroke of the d.