CS315 Lecture 5: Lecture 5- Jan 21
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Atempt to not understand the past but document the future. Time= waiing for chrisians in west changes around 15th c but generally. Development of the prining press and wriing brought about a fundamental transformaion of mentaliies. Print completely changes what it means to be human and how we experience the world. So that ater it we don"t experience an oral society any longer. The plays that spakespeare is wriing will end up in print shakespeare was opposed to the prining press because of the way he wrote his plays in performance or rehearsal. We all follow the same rule open a book and read from irst to last page. A bunch of snap shots, not a coninuous narraive. English- has no uniied naional force- global language not intrinsicly relsated to england either. The prining press created english vernacular many dialects but writen down, everything is standardized the standardizaion of the english language= beginingof the idea that there is an.