Thoughts about a radio show

A few weeks ago, an interesting radio program was aired in the Space-time series: "From the stone tablet to the printer. Thoughts about writing". I also brooded on speech and writing and some claims of the program kindled my imagination.

The spoken and written word can be characterized in many ways:

- Because of its fixation, writing is dead but live speech is dead as well if it has already been spoken.
- Listening to spoken language and reading always means translating: the speech model of the author's thoughts have to be transformed into thoughts of the listener or thoughts of the reader.
- When reading a written text, there is no online real-time metacommunicational contact with the author, while this contact is strong in case of live speech.
- Both writing and live speech model contain more information by their nature what has been put into them.

Now I will review the details of the above.

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