To be honest, reading the first half of the book called Orality and Literacy by Walter Ong was pretty boring in my opinion. I think the topic had me disinterested within the first couple chapters and the wording was boring and confusing at times. There were too many run-on sentences that I thought were unnecessary and could have been a lot less complicated. Even though it was boring to me I could say it was some good information about the difference and significance between oral and written communication. Also there is the form of communication that is non oral nor written, such as facial expressions, body language and gestures, and other ways of using our senses to communicate.
Something new that I learned from reading the first half of this book was the word grapholect. I learned that it is a “transdialect language formed by deep commitment to writing.” I believe that this is a term for communication that is done on the computer or in any online situation. Another thing I thought was really interesting was that the book explained that language is far more oral than it is written. To prove this, the book provided a fact that said out of many thousands of languages in the world; only about 106 of these languages have ever been committed to writing. I think this is very interesting because in order to learn languages I would think the visual aspect of writing the language is needed. Overall I did think this was a boring reading but I am glad that I learned a few new things from it which definitely makes up for that.