Communication Quote by Julian Jaynes

“In the Middle Ages, as in antiquity, they read usually, not as today, principally with the eyes, but with the lips, pronouncing what they…

— Jean Leclercq

“Although vowels are indicated in the cuneiform syllabaries, they are lacking from the alphabetic scripts of the Northwest and South.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“Before the spread of alphabetic writing, systems making much use of logograms were more common and included Egyptian hieroglyphs, Maya glyphs, and Sumerian cuneiform.”

— Jared Diamond

“Sumerian substratum is obvious not only in the use of a cuneiform system of writing, but also in the weakness of Laryngeal and Pharyngeal…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud.

— Marshall McLuhan

It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other,…

— Ferdinand de Saussure

Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.

— Margaret Atwood

New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the…

— Marshall McLuhan

“Perhaps the most important single step in the whole history of writing was the Sumerians’ introduction of phonetic representation, initially by writing an abstract…

— Jared Diamond

“Volumes of history written in the ancient alphabet of G and C, A and T.”

— Sy Montgomery

All reading was done in the early years out loud, there was no such thing as silent reading because you had to read out…

— Nicholas G. Carr

For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become the footprints…

— Franz Kafka