Soon we'll all be authors

• Published in: InterMedia (London) Vol. 29; no. 2; p. 30
• Main Author: Findlay, Elspeth
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London International Institute of Communications 01.04.2001
• Subjects: Audiences; Communications technology; Language; Printing machinery; Speaking; Speeches; Writing

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...