Re: "invention" of silent reading (McLuhan)

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From: Harlan Messinger
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 14:33

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"The Other" <other@no.email.pls> wrote in message
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> "John W. Kennedy" <jwkenne@attglobal.net> writes:
>
> > Henry Hanna wrote:
> > > A long time ago I read a book by McLuhan stating that silent
> > > reading was invented in the middle ages.
> >
> > > Was this such a difficult thing that needed to be "invented"?
>
> Becauseitwashardtodiscernthewordswithoutspacesseparatingthem.
> Apparently, silent reading became widespread when books started being
> written with spaces between words. _Space Between Words: The Origin of
> Silent Reading_ by Paul Saenger has been recommended here on
> rec.arts.books.

So in Thailand everybody still reads out loud?

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