Jan D’s Reviews > Rationality and the Literate Mind > Status Update

"[linguist imagine teaching] a grammar of English to English-born English-speaking students is an exercise in making explicit to the students what they already know, but did not know they knew…" like a "…Swiftian school of physiologists at the grand academy of Lagado devoted to writing a complete grammar of how to climb stairs. We can, of course, already climb a flight of stairs."

"writing is a mode of communication sui generis and has no intrinsic connexion with speech at all. This should already have been evident from the long history of musical notation, but linguists turned a professional blind eye to music."

After not agreeing with Canadian Media Theory, now not agreeing with Aristotle. Back to the roots. Still a good read.

Currently not agreeing with Ong.