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They didn't need to have information chopped up into sentences. This is because the whole concept of a sentence belongs to a literate world. In speech we use units called clauses (roughly speaking there's one verb to every clause). If you tape yourself having a conversation, you'll fi...

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Published inInterMedia (London) Vol. 29; no. 2; p. 30
Main Author Findlay, Elspeth
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London International Institute of Communications 01.04.2001
Subjects
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Communications technology
Language
Printing machinery
Speaking
Speeches
Writing
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Summary:They didn't need to have information chopped up into sentences. This is because the whole concept of a sentence belongs to a literate world. In speech we use units called clauses (roughly speaking there's one verb to every clause). If you tape yourself having a conversation, you'll find that you're not really using sentences at all. Instead you use strings of loosely connected clauses. Now [Milton] and his contemporaries were trained to keep lots of clauses in their head at one time.
ISSN:0309-118X