Marc Godin on Nostr: Something I learned today is that the etymology in english for "reading" in the sense ...

Something I learned today is that the etymology in english for "reading" in the sense of interpreting written text is different from most other languages, many of which derive from "gather up" (eg, the french "Lire" comes from latin "Legere"). But english "read" comes from "rede: to council or advise".

Both origins to the different words of "read" emphasize the act of knowledge gathering/sharing, rather than the act of using specifically your eyes, and that's interesting to me.

It's slippery to declare absolutely what words "really" mean anyway, but there is historical reason to include audiobooks under "reading" that is enough to satisfy me right now.

(the source for this rambling: https://www.etymonline.com/word/read )