Response to Young Essay

In his essay, Young points out many different types of notation. Different cultures approach reading with different tactics. The types of notation that I found most interesting where mnemonic, deviation from standard orthography, and writings as part of the landscape.
Today you can see Mnemonic reading practices in use. Mainly used by students as an easy way to remember important verses or categories. The difference between now and then is that it is a choice for a student to use this practice, not the only way of learning. Using this technique helps people who need visual keys to help cement ideas in their mind. With this form of notation, the reader is playing the sequences out in their mind as they are reading or viewing the images. That is an example of inner kinesthesia using inner sight and inner speech. When viewing an image, and if the mnemonic practice was successful, the reader should be able to say the verse or story in their head. When reading the image should be following the words like a storyboard.
The deviation of writers from standard orthography, though more prevalent in the past, can still be found in forms of literature today. Some poets still use this practice, perhaps as homage to past poets. However, genres of literature, such as Appalachian literature, have there own form of orthography. Appalachian writers use slang forms of words so the reader can feel as though they are not only reading the story, but are also part of the scene. Saying “allays” instead of “always” or “git” instead of “get” are just a few ways these authors use non-standard orthography. The reader may mentally break the words apart to recognize the connotation, but in doing so, they are using inner speech or inner kinesthesia. In the piece, the writers used different orthography to separate themselves from the mainstream writing.
Both etched into the surface and painted the practice of writing on large materials demands attention. The size of the writing may range from large to small but that size did not determine the impact of the content. Etching the writing into the surface makes it possible for the reader to reproduce the writing and take it with them. Today you can still see people doing this on etched surfaces such as the Vietnam Memorial. It may only be a single name copied and not a proverb, but to the reader it may carry the same importance. With this notation, both inner and outer sight is used. The act of taking in the reading from the surface and engraining it to memory.

My online autobiography

I would have to say I am a digital native. From the time I could walk I can remember there always being a computer or two in our house. My father worked for a company that repaired computers so we always had one there and pieces of ones that he would be working on himself. I can remember playing early versions of leap frog programs for learning vocabulary and math and playing mother goose video games. Even though I grew up around computers I can say that I really understand how they work. I was a sophomore in high school before I ever really used the internet. We had AOL of course, I think everyone did at first. Getting my first instant message from a friend online while talking to another friend on the phone at the same time seemed like the coolest thing ever. It was not till after we stopped using the demon AOL that I really learned how to explore the web. I used yahoo for email and did not have to hear the most annoying, " you've got mail " guy. I can see the little letter in my mailbox, I know I have mail shut up! Even today I still don't completely know everything about the internet and how it is magically placed in front of my everyday but I have learned to respect it because when you can't get online, the world seems to stop.