Languages never stand still. Modern spelling crystallises lost pronunciations: the visual never quite catches up with the aural.
Anthony Burgess
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Current concern with reading and spelling reform steers away from visual to auditory stress.
Marshall McLuhan
For twenty years programming languages have been steadily progressing toward their present condition of obesity; as a result, the study and invention of programming languages has lost much of its excitement. Instead, it is now the province of those who prefer to work with thick compendia of details rather than wrestle with new ideas. Discussions about programming languages often resemble medieval debates about the number of angels that can dance on the head of a pin instead of exciting contests between fundamentally differing concepts. Many creative computer scientists have retreated from inventing languages to inventing tools for describing them. Unfortunately, they have been largely content to apply their elegant new tools to studying the warts and moles of existing languages.
John Backus
Print altered not only the spelling and grammar but the accentuation and inflection of languages, and made “bad grammar” possible.
Marshall McLuhan
The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right hemisphere (oral) cultures.
Marshall McLuhan
The early bird catches the worm. But I have never been one for worms. I am not sure what the late bird catches, but I will feast with him today. Probably porridge.
Don Miller
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