dont know how common this is .. but ive always felt more comfortable with the written means of communication as opposed to spoken means of communication ..
couple of immediate reasons ..
1. the written form allows for objective/impersonal communication as opposed to the
spoken form
2. the spoken form is often not amenable to monologues, at least not very interesting ones
3. it appears much easier to get distracted in the spoken form -- its a low-bandwidth, and low-compute process that often is easy to get distracted from to other threads running in the brain
4. the written form allows deletions!
the only argument i find in favor of the spoken form is that its a stream, which makes it more suitable for a memoryless world than the written form.
should patent a syndrome for this before some psycho-psychologists make it theirs!!
aside: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0650971/
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one strong argument in favor of the written form -- it is better suited for sampling
I agree with 4:)
Couldn't help adding 5, based on comment above:
5.It appears saner to write to oneself, than to talk!
diya: normally i would have argued that 5. as proposed by you is actually a subset of 2. above .. but for a change i shall just say :-)
and i shall add
6. the written form allows one to convey things that you claim not to have conveyed
"6. the written form allows one to convey things that you claim not to have conveyed"
i'd argue that the spoken form is much better for this. there are many more degrees of freedom --intonation, facial expression etc -- that aren't present in the written form, or atleast aren't as expressive.
yhac .. when i added 6 i was a bit unsure myself .. essentially because the ability to convey more than one intendend meaning is quite common in both spoken and written language ..
coming back to your point -->
"intonation, facial expression"
unfortunately the ability to decipher these is beyond the reaches of certain mortal forms -- side/covert information channels are quite deceptive
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