Some things we just don't take the time to commit to memory<br>but some of us working on the revitalization of language and reviving ancient ceremonies<br>still must put in time to memorize speeches and prayers. It's important these are not read aloud.<br>
<br>Memorization of speeches takes time...lots of time. TIME is what our nervous fast-paced<br>dominant culture is consistently short of. When do people have the time to memorize anything?<br>Some memorize during commutes.I practice memorization while rolling clay coils in the studio, <br>
or while working in the garden.<br>Memorization requires a calm place, and often some kind of methodical routine , sanding, polishing, sweeping,<br>hoeing, weeding, driving, snapping beans, twisting dogbane fibers for a bowstring....<br>
these are the moments when the mind is free, unfettered , open and malleable.<br><br>unéh!<br>Richard Zane Smith<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 7:22 AM, Anthony Webster <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:awebster@siu.edu" target="_blank">awebster@siu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Apparently, prior to literacy, Harrison memorized his cell phone numbers! Literacy does not "make" you "lazy." Harrison seems to be ignoring a great deal of research on the interconnections between orality and literacy. Memorization, for example, has co-existed with literacy (there are a number of religious examples of this). Literacies are social practices. We should be suspicious of claims of technological determinism. akw<div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Phillip E Cash Cash <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cashcash@email.arizona.edu" target="_blank">cashcash@email.arizona.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid" class="gmail_quote">
“Literacy Makes You Lazy”: Saving Endangered Languages<br>
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Posted by Brian Clark Howard of National Geographic News on June 25, 2012<br>
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“Literacy makes you lazy: we don’t memorize 10,000-word epic poems any<br>
more,” David Harrison, the director of research for the Living Tongues<br>
Institute for Endangered Languages, told an audience at the Aspen<br>
Environment Forum in Colorado this past weekend.<br>
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“I don’t even memorize cell phone numbers any more,” said Harrison, a<br>
linguist who studies many of the world’s disappearing languages.<br>
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Harrison’s group has been featured in National Geographic, and his<br>
team formed a five-year joint project with NG, Enduring Voices, to<br>
study some of the most important endangered language “hotspots” around<br>
the world. Harrison is also an NG fellow.<br>
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Access full article below:<br>
<a href="http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/06/25/literacy-makes-you-lazy-saving-endangered-languages/" target="_blank">http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/06/25/literacy-makes-you-lazy-saving-endangered-languages/</a><br>
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