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To: Lane3 who wrote (105055)	2/26/2009 8:05:22 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) of 542656

"If you are fluent in a language, that is, you can speak it easily, you have already learned the language" That simply is not true- unless, of course, the people around you speak in academic language or "book language" which most people do not. The way people speak, and the way language is written, are different. There are different ways of constructing meaning- and of course a huge percentage of verbal communication is non-verbal, consisting of cues that are not relative to spoken language, which is not the case with words on a page. When you consider how meaning is constructed and how people actually communicate, you will see that they are completely different animals. That's why reading lags the spoken word by a considerable amount. Babies would be reading if it was the same thing- but it isn't. While language is symbolic, written language is super-symbolic- since not only do we have signifiers, but we have written signifiers FOR signifiers- so there is double the symbolic load (at the very least- and that's without taking in to effect dramatic irony and metaphor and idioms- which take things beyond the double symbolic in to realms I really can only call exponentially complex.

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