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the original technology, broadcasting thoughts on vibrating air with zero downloads required.
means To say words aloud; to use the voice to communicate language to others.
from From Old English 'specan,' an earlier form 'sprecan,' which lost its 'r' over time — a sound that simply wore away in the mouth across centuries. It belongs to a West Germanic family, kin to German 'sprechen' and Dutch 'spreken,' all tracing back to a shared root meaning to utter or scatter sounds. The vanished 'r' still echoes in old words like 'speech' and the dialect 'spreken.'
- vibration count
- vowels ride vocal cords buzzing 100-300 times a second
- silent kind
- sign languages are full languages, grammar and all
- head start
- humans speak roughly 16,000 words per day
- deep root
- every spoken language traces back tens of thousands of years
gettysburg address — abraham lincoln's 272-word speech at pennsylvania battlefield dedication, november 19 1863
i have a dream — martin luther king jr.'s speech at 1963 march on washington for civil rights