Chapter 4 Response

The one sentence I agree with would have to be, "The lack of word separation, combined with the absence of word order conventions, placed an "extra cognitive burden" on ancient readers." I agree with this Carr on this one because of the one poem in class that I had to decipher. The poem had no spaces whatsoever and made it very hard for me to understand what it was saying. In addition to that, it was time-consuming. Even after deciphering the poem, I had a hard time understanding the feeling the poem was trying to give out. Thank goodness for the idea of adding spaces to writings. The sentence, "They had to train their brains to ignore everything else going around them.", I had to disagree with. I disagreed simply because obviously everybody is different and some people are just born naturally with good attention span and reading skills.