On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 12:31:23PM -0500, Casey Rousseau wrote: > Speaking of which, has anyone else come across an assertion that the art of > reading silently (as opposed to at least subvocalizing the text as it is > being read) is a recent invention (not earlier than sometime in the High > Middle Ages or Renaissance)? Yeah, I've seen that. Not necessarily _that_ recent, but claims that someone in the Middle Ages was considered extraordinary for reading silently. butthenpunctuationandevenspacesbetweenwordshavealsobeensaidtoberecentinventions soperhapsmostpeoplehavingtomovetheirlipsisnotareflectionontheirintelligence becausehowwellareyoureadingthissnootymodernperson -xx- Damien X-)