NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/bit/listserv/notabene/3147

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> On 22 Dec J. P. Earls sent a message suggesting that Dorothy Day act as
> a clearing house for "discoveries." I was struck by a random thought (the only
> kind I get) at the end of the message when J. P. wrote "Are you listening,
> Dorothy?" When I was in the signal corps of the Canadian Army, on the radio
> we used to ask "How do you read me?" (I think that radio hams use the same
> jargon.) I find it interesting that when we were telecommunicating in auditory
> mode we talked about "reading." Now here we are sending text and talking
> about listening. Not a criticism. Just a random thought.

There is a theory group within social work (it has probably extended
to psychology now, but I'm pretty sure it began in social work) who
talk about "neurolinguistic programming".  Their basic point is that
humans relate to their environment primarily through one particular
sense (or something like this).  The idea is that you can identify
the dominant sensory mode of any particular individual by paying
attention to the type of language that they use; people who talk
about reading are visual, people who talk about listening are
primarily auditory, etc.  Thus, rather than the McLuhanesque
(is that a word?) explanation that you provide focusing upon
the primacy of the particlar media, these individuals would
make much different sense out of the same observation.

Gary Bowden
Sociology, UNB
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