Kodama Maria Bungaku Shuusei - Vol. 1 Ch. 6 - The Story You've Been Waiting For

[MangaDex]

 

[Simpleton]

Such a sneaky (and special) gift. XD

 

[Meleis420]

 

[liquidsword]

@Meleis420 Pretty sure she said she made all that up.

 

[BobPotato]

@liquisword tbf, at least as far as the printing press stuff goes, there is at least a kernel of truth there. Gutenberg Bible was used for testing of various ink mixtures when the printing press was first being invented, and because it was 15th century Europe, the Bible was one of the most printed books for the longest time while the printing press spread

Can't speak for the other stuff though, no idea if that's true

 

[Escerkor]

No, it's pretty well documented that until the late Middle-Ages people used to mumble while reading or just plain read out loud so that illiterate people could understand. The practice of silent reading is pretty much exclusively a Modern one, and especially only after the space between words was invented around the 13th century. It so happens that when you write without any spaces it's really hard to decipher a sentence without kinda reading it out loud, like this: itsprettydifficulttomakeoutwhichwordiswhichwithoutspacesjustataglancesokindamumblingthesyllabeshelpsalot.

 

[leusee]

nombre is name isn't it?

 

[Beregorn]

How far that social security goes, thought? I'm asking for a friend...

 

[justforthelulz]

@leusee

nombre is name isn't it?

In Spanish and many other languages, yes, "nombre = name", but in the context of her talk about the Bible, "nombre = number".

 

[LazyDeva]

@Escerkor did you even read? She said she lied.

 

[bean_sprugget]

@LazyDeva
From Wikipedia:

Scholars assume that reading aloud (Latin clare legere) was the more common practice in antiquity, and that reading silently (legere tacite or legere sibi) was unusual.

and

In 18th-century Europe, the then new practice of reading alone in bed was, for a time, considered dangerous and immoral. As reading became less a communal, oral practice, and more a private, silent one – and as sleeping increasingly moved from communal sleeping areas to individual bedrooms, some raised concern that reading in bed presented various dangers, such as fires caused by bedside candles. Some modern critics, however, speculate that these concerns were based on the fear that readers – especially women – could escape familial and communal obligations and transgress moral boundaries through the private fantasy worlds in books.