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It is the visual stress in phonetic writing that
makes it primarily an extension of the visual
faculty, and makes it necessary for literate people
to understand the modality of the visual sense.
Alex Leighton once said: “To the blind all things
are sudden,” drawing attention to a dominant
characteristic of the visual. To the seeing man
nothing is sudden. To the phonetically literate, the
extension of the visual power in space and time
endows him with a sense of continuity, of
sequence and of transition, of causes and effect
quite beyond the power of him who lacks this
amplification of the visual power. The phonetically
literate acquires detachment and non-involvement