Re: "invention" of silent reading (McLuhan)

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From: Peter T. Daniels
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 06:10

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the Robot Vegetable wrote:
> 
> In rec.arts.books Harlan Messinger <h.messinger@comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > "The Other" <other@no.email.pls> wrote in message
> >> 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?
> >
> 
>    Um <goes and checks some books> well, I can't read them anymore,
> but there are definitely spaces between word sized groups of letters
> in the books I have sitting around.

Maybe those are readers for learners? Thai writes whole phrases and
clauses closed up (but Michael Farris just said that the breaks _don't_
necessarily correspond to phrase or clause boundaries, which seems weird
to me).
-- 
Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net

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