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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.