Writing freezes speech and in so doing gives birth to the grammarian, the logician, the rhetorician, the historian, the scientist -- all those who must hold language before them so that they can see what it means, where it errs, and where it is leading.

— Neil Postman Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985)

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