[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re:Audio Books

[Dina Lerret]

On 6/22/05, Sherry Gomes <sherriola at earthlink.net> wrote:

> I'm not sure if that makes a lot of sense the way I've tried to explain it.
> It's so basic to me, that I'm not sure how to express it.  Again, i know you
> weren't implying that listening is inferior.  I just wanted to try to
> explain how some people will consider listening to be reading even though it
> is with our ears.
> 
> Did it make sense at all?

{sigh}  I'm going on four hours of sleep and I really do feel like
doing a *head desk* right about now.  I understand where you're coming
from but it still doesn't translate that a large percentage of folk
I've encountered think (how I was taught) there is a *distinction*
when communicating to a larger audience:

reading: using your eyes or touch sensory
listening: using audio sensory or touch

I find irony in the wording just as I find irony in a gal saying she
thinks rocks 'sexy' because she's a geologist and her definition of
'sexy' is something that arouses excitement and it may not be of a
sexual nature.

Dina