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Article #5393Re: "invention" of silent reading (McLuhan)
From: djinn
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 20:34
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 20:34
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"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:<3FEA7F4B.7FF9@worldnet.att.net>... > 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). can't say for Thai, but in Khmer the breaks do seem to correspond to phrases. There aren't normally breaks between words. People definitely do read silently.
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