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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Not sure what you are trying to say with this.
Has anyone implied that writing words in a computer program rather than on paper (or hand-illuminated vellum) is killing the written word?
The OP referred to "Facebook makes a claim that text is disappearing".
NOT:
"Facebook makes a claim that printed text is disappearing".
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Pictures on the walls of churches is a very good example of "people were illiterate". Granted, it was the effect rather than the cause, but AFAIK you are the only one who suggested that anyone might think it was the other way around.
More pictures don't hurt (and didn't hurt the churches, I suppose). Pictures replacing words does hurt. Especially when that change is in the primary method of communication these days.
Not that I see any such change happening, outside limited and foregone spheres of influence.
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What I meant was that probably some feared that writing would decline if people didn't have to write each letter out by hand. Each culture has had a different way of transferring knowledge to the people. It still continues to be conveyed though.