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J. Stomat. Occ. Med. (2010) 3: 1 DOI 10.1007/s12548-010-0037-5 Printed in Austria Springer-Verlag 2010
EditorialScripta manent, verba volant
Nowadays interpretation is written words will last forever, pronounced words will be lost. But the original meaning was exactly the opposite. In ancient time until Middle Age words were written to be pronounced aloud by the few that were able to read them for the people not able to read, so that verba volant words would have been divulged.
Because books were read aloud, it was not necessary to separate letters in phonetic units so writing was a long uninterrupted sequence of letters without capitals letters nor punctuations and was the capability of the reader to give the sense and the interpretation of the written text.
Depending on the place and time these letters in long sequence were from left to right, right to left, from...