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Article #5387Re: "invention" of silent reading (McLuhan)
From: Peter T. Daniels
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 19:45
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 19:45
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Harlan Messinger wrote: > > "The Other" <other@no.email.pls> wrote in message > news:lyn09imx25.fsf@circe.aeaea... > > "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? Not to mention China and Japan. At least in Thailand you get the occasional word space. -- Peter T. Daniels grammatim@att.net
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