what if no one could read?

[TheThing]

i mean, what if one day we woke up and couldnt read. some people joke around and say "oh i never read" or "what has raeding done for me?" , but then they go home and im for 2 straight hours. post your thoughts

[Trendwhore]

if noone could read then there would be no BBS.

oh, and the human race would be set back a 1.000 years.

[TheBlueBullet]

Already has. Its the South East.

We would have to reteach ourselves how to read. Get people with pHd to figure out the english language again.

[sdhonda]

I suggest you check out a book:"farenheight 451"

[Reverend-Kyle]

Not all languages have writing. I imagine we'd adopt an oral tradition.

[SEXY-FETUS]

reading has always been more of a way to move thoughts and ideas. With todays technology we could just as easily send sound files around everywhere.

[fahrenheit]

At 3/19/06 11:29 AM, sdhonda wrote: I suggest you check out a book:"farenheight 451"

I suggest you interpret the book better.

People could still read, infact there was still books around. It was the fictional books that were burned.

[JudgeDredd]

*imagines newgrounds translated into 20 languages*

.. with just a few more of those "english is no my 1st langwage- sorey"

[The-Gus]

or spell either

[ironmaiden233]

what does this have to do with politics?

[A-Carrot-By-Dr-Riot]

At 3/19/06 11:29 AM, sdhonda wrote: I suggest you check out a book:"farenheight 451"

It was a pretty good book. I heard that Michael Moore is pretty pissed at Ray Bradbury for stealing the name from him without permission though.

[Monocrom]

At 3/19/06 11:29 AM, sdhonda wrote: I suggest you check out a book:"farenheight 451"

I think the topic-starter was refering to ACTUALLY not being able to read. Instead of the Government declaring all books being illegal to own.

[sdhonda]

At 3/19/06 06:55 PM, Dr_Arbitrary wrote:

At 3/19/06 11:29 AM, sdhonda wrote: I suggest you check out a book:"farenheight 451"

It was a pretty good book. I heard that Michael Moore is pretty pissed at Ray Bradbury for stealing the name from him without permission though.

Vice-versa.

It was written in the late 50s.

[sdhonda]

I think the topic-starter was refering to ACTUALLY not being able to read. Instead of the Government declaring all books being illegal to own.

Hey, it just popped into my head.

[TheThing]

At 3/19/06 11:29 AM, sdhonda wrote: I suggest you check out a book:"farenheight 451"

already have. very good book

[BlackMetal-BadAss]

if the world suddenly lost the ability to read, it would be chaos.

we would have to resolve to audio and video only.

[RedSkunk]

Things would be a WHOLE lot simpler.

[TheThing]

enough with fahrinhiet 451!! it was a good book but it was about people burning books. in fact, they still read, just billboards 200 miles long because people drove 300 mph. Now lets just talk about if we woke up and not a single person on earth or coming into it could read.

[HighlyIllogical]

At 3/19/06 12:43 PM, Reverend_Kyle wrote: Not all languages have writing. I imagine we'd adopt an oral tradition.

The Greeks did it. And their stories are now written.

[TheThing]

At 3/20/06 09:46 PM, GSgt_Liberal wrote:

At 3/19/06 12:43 PM, Reverend_Kyle wrote: Not all languages have writing. I imagine we'd adopt an oral tradition.

The Greeks did it. And their stories are now written.

those are called legends, fuck tart. oral stories passed down from generation to generation. he means everything will be said aloud and those who are deaf will be killed

[HighlyIllogical]

At 3/20/06 09:50 PM, thething69 wrote:

those are called legends, fuck tart. oral stories passed down from generation to generation. he means everything will be said aloud and those who are deaf will be killed

What do you mean by that? And what, might I ask, is a "fuck tart [sic.]"?

[No-one-inparticular]

At 3/19/06 06:44 PM, ironmaiden233 wrote: what does this have to do with politics?

Literacy is very, very political. reading=knowledge, knowledge=political savvy.

[RedSkunk]

At 3/20/06 09:50 PM, thething69 wrote:

At 3/20/06 09:46 PM, GSgt_Liberal wrote:

At 3/19/06 12:43 PM, Reverend_Kyle wrote: Not all languages have writing. I imagine we'd adopt an oral tradition.

The Greeks did it. And their stories are now written.

those are called legends, fuck tart. oral stories passed down from generation to generation. he means everything will be said aloud and those who are deaf will be killed

And that's what an "oral tradition" means you twit.

[Chumbawamba]

All of our knowledge (what we could manage) would be passed down to the next generation by mouth, if we couldn't read ever again.

[intrepidus6]

At 3/19/06 09:49 AM, Souta wrote: Already has. Its the South East.

I Live in the South East, and I can read. It's the best part of the country, I'll have you know! Minus the republicans... and the rednecks.... Well, minus all the people. But, after you take away most of the people here, it really is a nice place to live. But there's nowhere to shop, and hardly any good restaurants.... Well, minus everything except the actual area itself, and it's a nice place to live.

[Markface]

Chances are if anything we'd adopt a new language, my guess alot like sign language

[ReiperX]

what if people would stop making these stupid what if posts.

Ahh how wonderful life would be then.