Why SCREENING might replace READING for what we do when we READ on a screen or online....
...wny? because READING does not really mean READING anyways. A look at the background origins of the word TO READ show that in fact TO READ comes from a very different sent of mindsets re information and counselling etc.
As you can see from the below info, READING does not necessarily mean reading words on a printed page. Reading is not a holy word. It can be morphed into screening, for the kind of reading we now do on screens and online.
Most languages use a word rooted in the idea of "gather up" as their word for "read" (cf. Fr. lire, from L. legere).
raditi "to take thought, attend to,"
O.E. rædan (W.Saxon), redan (Anglian) "to explain, read, rule, advise" (related to ræd, red "advice"), from P.Gmc. *raedanan (cf. O.N. raða, O.Fris. reda, Du. raden, O.H.G. ratan, Ger. raten "to advise, counsel, guess"), from PIE base *rei- "to reason, count" (cf. Skt. radh- "to succeed, accomplish," Gk. arithmos "number amount," O.C.S. raditi "to take thought, attend to," O.Ir. im-radim "to deliberate, consider").
Connected to riddle via notion of "interpret." Words from this root in most modern Gmc. languages still mean "counsel, advise." Transference to "understand the meaning of written symbols" is unique to O.E. and (perhaps under Eng. influence) O.N. raða. Most languages use a word rooted in the idea of "gather up" as their word for "read" (cf. Fr. lire, from L. legere). Sense of "make out the character of (a person)" is attested from 1611. The noun meaning "an act of reading" is recorded from 1825. Read up "study" is from 1842; read-only in computer jargon is recorded from 1961. O.E. ræda "advise, counsel" is in the name of Anglo-Saxon king Æðelræd II (968-1016), lit. "good counsel," and in his epithet Unræd, usually rendered into Mod.Eng. as Unready, but really meaning "no-counsel." Rede "counsel" survived in poetic usage to 17c. An attempted revival by Scott (19c.) failed, though it is used in Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings."
2. Etymology:
Middle English ''reden'', to explain, hence to read < OE
rædan, ''to counsel, interpret''; akin to German ''raten'', to
''counsel, advise'' < IE *rē-dh, *rə-dh < base *ar-, *(a)rē-, to join,
fit > art, arm, Latin ''reri'', ''to think'', ratio, a reckoning
As you can see from the below info, READING does not necessarily mean reading words on a printed page. Reading is not a holy word. It can be morphed into screening, for the kind of reading we now do on screens and online.
Most languages use a word rooted in the idea of "gather up" as their word for "read" (cf. Fr. lire, from L. legere).
raditi "to take thought, attend to,"
O.E. rædan (W.Saxon), redan (Anglian) "to explain, read, rule, advise" (related to ræd, red "advice"), from P.Gmc. *raedanan (cf. O.N. raða, O.Fris. reda, Du. raden, O.H.G. ratan, Ger. raten "to advise, counsel, guess"), from PIE base *rei- "to reason, count" (cf. Skt. radh- "to succeed, accomplish," Gk. arithmos "number amount," O.C.S. raditi "to take thought, attend to," O.Ir. im-radim "to deliberate, consider").
Connected to riddle via notion of "interpret." Words from this root in most modern Gmc. languages still mean "counsel, advise." Transference to "understand the meaning of written symbols" is unique to O.E. and (perhaps under Eng. influence) O.N. raða. Most languages use a word rooted in the idea of "gather up" as their word for "read" (cf. Fr. lire, from L. legere). Sense of "make out the character of (a person)" is attested from 1611. The noun meaning "an act of reading" is recorded from 1825. Read up "study" is from 1842; read-only in computer jargon is recorded from 1961. O.E. ræda "advise, counsel" is in the name of Anglo-Saxon king Æðelræd II (968-1016), lit. "good counsel," and in his epithet Unræd, usually rendered into Mod.Eng. as Unready, but really meaning "no-counsel." Rede "counsel" survived in poetic usage to 17c. An attempted revival by Scott (19c.) failed, though it is used in Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings."
2. Etymology:
Middle English ''reden'', to explain, hence to read < OE
rædan, ''to counsel, interpret''; akin to German ''raten'', to
''counsel, advise'' < IE *rē-dh, *rə-dh < base *ar-, *(a)rē-, to join,
fit > art, arm, Latin ''reri'', ''to think'', ratio, a reckoning
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