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Luckily the text editor has been invented giving you the possibility of endlessly editing your sentence until it makes some sense. Only half joking. I'm always
by ithkuil 3y ago
Luckily the text editor has been invented giving you the possibility of endlessly editing your sentence until it makes some sense.
Only half joking. I'm always impressed by those ancient people who could write long letters by hand in beautiful orthography, composing complex texts and make them just flow linearly. I'm sure here and there there would be a rewriting step involved but that can't have been always the case; there was surely practical pressure to get the output right at first try.
Perhaps this skill could be trained but perhaps it also leverages the ability to tap into your inner voice and inner speech
- mmasu 3y agoi think it’s a matter of training/habit. Also, back then (educated) people used memory a lot more efficiently; this might have played a role too… i.e. compose and edit the whole text in your mind before writing it down.
- ithkuil 3y ago> compose and edit the whole text in your mind before writing it down yeah; doesn't that basically mean you have to have "inner speech"?
- SuperHeavy256 3y agoPerhaps only the letters which were 'really good' were preserved by historians, and most of the average human writing was not as preserved .