 For example, a phrase written in "scriptio continua" as "collectamexiliopubem" may be interpreted as "collectam ex Ilio pubem", meaning "a people gathered from Troy", or "collectam exilio pubem", "a people gathered for exile".Thus, readers had to be much more cognisant of the context to which the text referred.Over time, the current system of rapid silent reading for information replaced the older, slower, and more dramatic performance based reading, and word dividers and punctuation became more beneficial to text.