278 - An Admirable Point - Florence Hazrat
You Are Not So Smart
The connection between writing and speech
The concept of writing as a distinct form from speech was not initially realized because people thought writing was just a manifestation of speech. The tiny pauses that naturally occur in speech are not noticeable to human ears or brains, but can be recorded by a device. Therefore, people originally did not perceive the need to mark distinct words or sentences in writing, as they viewed speech as a continuous flow of sound.
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