words. Whereas Phoenician and Semitic languages 
don’t need vowels, the words themselves are 
constituted by consonants. And it is their 
relationship that is constituted by the vowels. If 
you put in those vowels—because you could not do 
otherwise—as the Greeks did, then you turn what 
was a configuration of letters into a sequence of 
letters. And if you did that then the dominant 
process was the analysis process and not the 
seizing process. Both are necessary for any 
writing, but it is a question of dominance. Which is 
the most important. Which is the one that is the 
most urgent for the brain to discover.