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Sound

Oral

Courses of action and attitudes toward issues depend significantly more on sound - the effective use of words, and thus, on human interaction (68).

Example

The highwayman came riding,
Riding, riding!
The redcoats looked to their priming! She stood up, straight and still!
Tlot-tlot, in the frosty silence! Tlot-tlot, in the echoing night!
Nearer he came and nearer! Her face was like a light!
Her eyes grew wide for a moment; she drew one last deep breath,
Then her finger moved in the moonlight,
Her musket shattered the moonlight,
Shattered her beast in the moonlight and warned him - with her death.
He turned; he spurred to the Westward; he did not know who stood
Bowed, with her head o'er the musket, drenched with her own red blood!
Not till the dawn he heard it, his face grew grey to hear
How Bess, the landlord's daughter
The landlords black-eyed daughter,
Had watched for her love in the moonlight, and died in the darkness there.

--"The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes, (1880-1958)

Literate

Courses of action and attitudes toward issues depend significantly more on non-verbal, visual input.

Exception: Primally-strong emotions trigger a default back to the oral mode.

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