[WilliamJenningsBryan]

Originally Posted by Please Flush Me

Oh yes. Because we clearly gave these to ourselves. And really? That's meant to be encouraging? It's not really encouraging is it if everyone got one.



They were more preoccupied with reminding people why voting for trump is a bad thing, or with their education, or with working.


Well huh, guess all those books I see student with are all empty. I do wonder how those engineering students right their notes then. It is rather hard to insert complicated maths functions into a word document, but to do it quick enough to keep up with the slides? Kudos to them.


Now, that point about us using abbreviations or misspelling words or "wrong verb tense", I recommend a site called AO3. There are millions of examples to disprove this. Or even on Tumblr. Plenty of example on there - even ones saying how language changes, especially when different platforms are involved.


Also, I regret to inform you, the Bible was only the first MAJOR book printed on a printing press. Prior to that was the Jikji, a Korean Buddhist text.


Oh dear.

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Well huh, guess all those books I see students with are all empty. I do wonder how those engineering students write their notes then. It is rather hard to insert complicated math functions into a word document, but to do it quick enough to keep up with the slides? Kudos to them.



Now, that point about us using abbreviations or misspelling words or "wrong verb tense", I recommend a site called AO3. There are millions of examples to disprove this on Tumblr - even ones saying how language changes, especially when different platforms are involved.

So let me see if I have the logic straight in your argument - every time anyone misspells words, uses wrong grammar, uses non-standard abbreviations and employs improper punctuation it is considered to disprove all established rules of writing?

With regard to the invention of the printing press, Johannes Gutenberg's invention was unique in employing a number of technologies, and was the only one to be widely adopted - along with its effects in the West. Your example of the Korean Buddhist text was an example of movable type (along with earlier woodblock printing), it never went mainstream - mainly due to the fact that the chinks had all these thousands of squiggly little characters to express their language - extremely difficult for the time to make a comprehensive set of type. The West had already developed the alphabet, much more conducive to Gutenberg's invention.