15-01-2023, 08:38 AM
There is a growing body of research that indicates screen engagement involves a different part of the brain to that working on paper based forms of communication. Just as keying requires different muscles to writing with pen or pencil, reading a real book is a different experience to the same book in a screen.
One truth that is well established now though is the rapidly decreasing size of our individual vocabularies. Most of us only have one a quarter of the size of our grandparents, and a fair few of the words we do have are now spelled or pronounced differently. Interestingly enough, the lost words are not being balanced by new ones, though new ones are being created as our knowledge base changes.
One truth that is well established now though is the rapidly decreasing size of our individual vocabularies. Most of us only have one a quarter of the size of our grandparents, and a fair few of the words we do have are now spelled or pronounced differently. Interestingly enough, the lost words are not being balanced by new ones, though new ones are being created as our knowledge base changes.