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the oldest technology, still running on breath and unwilling to be patched.
means The act of speaking aloud, or a formal set of words delivered to an audience.
from From Old English 'sprǣc' (later 'spǣc'), the noun standing beside the verb 'sprecan,' to speak — the same Germanic family that gives German 'Sprache.' Notice the lost 'r': early English speakers carried it (sprecan, spræc) before it quietly fell away, leaving the smoother 'speech' and 'speak' we use now.
- speed
- Average talker hits 150 words per minute
- origin
- No one knows when language actually began
- muscles
- Roughly 100 muscles coordinate a single sentence
- freedom
- Most-fought-over right in human history
- silence
- Pauses carry as much meaning as words
for instance
gettysburg address — abraham lincoln's 272-word speech delivered at the gettysburg battlefield dedication in 1863
i have a dream — martin luther king jr.'s speech during the 1963 march on washington for civil rights