Re: LOGO-L> Auditory vs Visual

[mikedoyle@cix.compulink.co.uk (Mike Doyle)]

In-Reply-To: <199707162206.SAA20827@moose.ncia.net>
Tom Woods wrote:

>  Consider speech. It is an auditory serial transmission with rich
phonetic packets of meaning. 

Careful.
The phonetic packets of meaning only carry that meaning for an 
comprehending listener. There is a range of about 46 sound contrasts used 
to convey meaning in human language. Any given language uses fewer than 
this and then maps even fewer to its alphabetic system. Richness is in the 
ear of the listener (cf.Shakespear's prose).

All writing (manual-graphic or computer-binary) and speech is, at an 
appropriate level, a mechanical solution to the problem of communication. 

That speech is a serial system is one reason why list-processing Logo has 
educational validity.

Micheal O Duill

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