Quote:
Originally Posted by sealbeater
What exactly is absurd about it? The conversation the OP and I were having was about audiobooks and watching video. Would you like me to quote the relevant lines, again? Do you think "Ted Talk" and "YouTube cat videos" referred to audiobooks? Please, inform me of the absurdity, I would sincerely like to know.
|
It's absurd to think watching a movie and listening to a book are equivalent, which I'm sure you know.
Quote:
Again, I respectfully disagree. I know you will probably find this absurd but the way I see it, a movie is also sending words into my brain. Both aurally and visually since I often watch movies with subtitles. As for audio, I can turn that on and tune it out. If I'm listening to an audiobook and something distracts my attention from it for a moment, what? The audio will go on, my brain is no longer paying attention but my ears are still picking it up but its tuned out. That never happens with reading. It may be the same words reaching my brain but in this case, means matter.
Speaking solely for myself which should be obvious but I can see that needs to be pointed out here.
|
You are being anything BUT respectful, and I'm sure you know it. Pseudo politeness isn't respectful.
Quote:
Originally Posted by sealbeater
Why would someone need research to make a assertion? All of us see things in our day to day lives that we collate into conclusions which we then assert to others. As for evidence, there's some in this very thread if you look closely. As for you listening to audiobooks all the time and knowing how to spell and write, we only have your self-reporting on both scores and even if so, you don't prove the rule. How exactly did you learn how to spell and write proper grammar? From listening to audiobooks? That must have taught you the difference between two, to and too. Not to mention break and brake and flair and flare.
|
Why are you deliberately skipping over the previous posts that took care to point out that once someone has learned the basics of literacy, audio or visual format doesn't matter?
If someone says flatly that spelling and grammar are eroded by disuse, yes, I want something to back it up.