Greetings:

By post-literate I mean post-text based literacy: the milieu of media from Television, Film, internet which has to be "read" in increasingly complex ways. These media are very non-linear. Will they or have they already changed the way we, post-literates, think?

The Thanksgiving Dinner piece was interesting to a point. I kept waiting for her to make a point, but finally just relaxed as she continued to catalog the linguistic devices she and her friends used during a casual dinner conversation. Language is complicated. It has amazed me for years that what with all of the obstacles to communication we have to overleap that any thought occurs at all. William Burroughs said that language is a virus from outer space. Miscommunication caused by language difficulties certainly has killed quite a few of us over the years.