A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

I suggest that the spoken word is the indispensable medium for processing the non-verbal noises of the industrial environment. This brings us to a strange feature of the Engolish language which is not shared by other languagesl English is the only language that has feet as opposed to mere symbols. The iambic and trochaic feet of English (up-beat and down-beat) permits it to have a much deeper relation to movement and multi-sensuous involvement than other Western tongues.
“Jazz and Rock” (1976); unpublished typescript written for but not accepted by Rolling Stone magazine, p 3
Year: 1976
Chapters: Music | Speech
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