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Is there any history on where the practice of silent reading began? My understanding is that most people during antiquity had to read out loud in order to process text.
The only relevant example I can find is that Alexander the Great reportedly used to read out loud as a child but by the time he was a full grown adult he had managed to suppress the reflex and could read in silence.
tl;dr when did people start reading silently?
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>>2919693
something funny here?
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The earliest 100% concrete example is of St. Ambrose via St. Augustine.
https://web.stanford.edu/class/history34q/readings/Manguel/Silent_Readers.html
There are some mentions alluding to Greeks doing the same, meaning it might have been done at the time, but nothing quite as bulletproof.
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>>2919740
700 years after alexander
why were christfags so thick-witted lads?
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>>2919684
LANGUAGE IS A TRAIT OF CONSCIOUSNESS; THE ABILITY TO READ IN SILENCE IS INDICATIVE OF A MORE DEVELOPED CONSCIOUSNESS, THUS, TO DETERMINE WHERE SILENT READING FIRSTLY BECAME COMMON, ONE MUST LOOK INTO THE FIRST/EARLIEST CIVILIZATIONS; ID EST: THOSE WITH MORE ADVANCED LANGUAGE SYSTEMS.
I DO NOT THINK THAT SILENT READING ORIGINATED IN ONE SPECIFIC PLACE, BUT RATHER, IT STARTED DEVELOPING IN SEVERAL PLACES, SIMULTANEOUSLY; PLACES IN WHICH CIVILIZATION HAD REACHED A CERTAIN DEGREE OF DEVELOPMENT, AND SOCIETY HAD BECOME SUFFICIENTLY COMPLEX TO ALLOW FOR GREATER STIMULATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS.
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>>2919835
bro
fucking
cool it with the caps lock, ok?
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>>2919835
who are you?
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>>2919965
He's an Arabic speaker. Using A keyboard where, like Arabic, there is only one case
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>>2919983
Nah, you'll be okay.
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>>2919835
WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU YELLING? CALM DOWN, YOU CUNT.
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>>2919835
Why are you screaming?
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>>2919835
Fucking tripfags
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