>""The German does not read aloud, does not read for the ear, but merely with his eyes: he has put his ears away in the drawer. In antiquity, when a man read - which he did very seldom - he read to himself ... in a loud voice; it was a matter for surprise if someone read quietly, and people secretly asked themselves why he did so. In a loud voice: that is to say, with all the crescendos, inflections, variations of tone and changes of tempo in which the ancient public world took pleasure."" -- Nietzshit
ambrose of milan was the first dude recorded to read quietly. st augustine freaked out over this, and couldn't get over how the dude did it. if you go further back to ancient greece, where there was no grammar, or only small marks to help the orator, books were always read out loud. aristotle had beef with hericlitus because in his book (that we only have in fragments now) he constantly transgresses the boundary of spoken language and written language, and aristotle probably wasn't much of a listener.
Parker Reyes
If you 'think' reading outloud is NPC you clearly are an NPC. Poetry was fucking possible due to reading aloud, you soulless idiot. Nietzsche is right here and that shouldn't come off as a surprise since he's all about beauty.
Adrian Allen
Does this confirm Julian Jaynes?
William James
sure, why not. never heard of the guy. I hope he said some zany shit.
Josiah Brown
reading outloud is fine. not being able to read silently is the concern. how did you miss the simple point.
It's why we have to remain in school for so many years
Nolan Stewart
so did they also write 'aloud'?
Zachary Mitchell
If you were a patrician you didn't write at all. You recited aloud and a slave wrote for you. I guess the slaves wrote quietly, so they were probably the only non-NPCs
Justin Perry
Reading aloud all the time is chad as fuck.
Kevin Cruz
Hm? People can read without reading out loud?
Alexander Mitchell
I can't even read outloud without it distracting me. What the fuck?
Before invention of colour TVs people used to dream in black and white. Now this is a scientific fact, there's no real evidence for it, but it's a fact.
Xavier Martin
Wow, science is AWESOME. fuck yeah
Caleb Nguyen
>Ancient people couldn't process the fact they were thinking and had an internal monologue and as such attributed the voice in their head to gods talking to them
I fucking hate being modern
Matthew Flores
they were also pederasts
Justin Morris
Books actually taught people to subvocalize. It’s interesting because it wasn’t until around AD400 that people started reading without speaking. And then it took another 1000 years for large segments of the population to do it, and another 500 years for the majority of Westerners. In China, India, Africa, and Latin America, you still find lots of people who don’t subvocalize.
Julian Rodriguez
Reading quietly wasn't the habit, so people didn't do it. However, as text got more common, reading in quiet became more prevalent (and necessary).
Brayden Morales
It wasn't around because when you read you're likely reading to someone or a group. And if you're not you probably want to voice the content out anyway to bring the quality of the language out.
