- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 11:06:00 -0800
- To: love26@gorge.net (William Loughborough), Anne Pemberton <apembert@crosslink.net>, "Bailey, Bruce" <Bruce_Bailey@ed.gov>, <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
At 12:40 PM -0800 11/24/00, William Loughborough wrote: >At 02:03 PM 11/24/00 -0800, Anne Pemberton wrote: >>There is only so much you can do with text. > >I don't want to get too out of hand but if I'm not mistaken all of >civilization has, in a very real sense been built on "text"? I think this is a bizarre statement. Civilization has been built on _language_. Text is simply one way to render that language, and it has been dominant due to specific technology available since the invention of the printing press, but in no way is it accurate to say that civilization has been built on "text." Especially when you consider historically illiteracy rates... Remember that some of the greatest works of the English language -- I'm thinking of Shakespeare here -- were meant to be _performed_ by _live people_, not simply read out of musty old books in quiet classrooms. (But, why are we talking about this?) --Kynn -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://www.kynn.com/
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