Re: [tlug] Accessing JB's WWWJDIC Off-Line

[Benjamin Tayehanpour <benjamin@example.com>]

On 28 August 2013 03:32, Lyle H Saxon <llletters@example.com> wrote:
> I've always found it fascinating how salesperson types are so good
> with their mouths but often can't write very well, and people who are
> good at writing often don't handle verbal conversations well.

Not really exclusive to salespersons, is it? Most people are better at
one than they are at the other. They may be used to similar ends, but
writing and talking are fundamentally different in execution. Talking
is an example of synchronous communication; both parts need to be
present and alert to converse, and the receiver must receive data at
the rate it is being transmitted. Writing, on the other hand, is
asynchronous; the reader doesn't have to be present when the text is
written, and the reader can digest the data at any rate he or she
finds comfortable. Both reading and writing can be done
out-of-sequence; you can gloss things over and then get back to it at
a later time, which for the writer leads to a better-formed text and
for the reader leads to a fuller understanding.

Due to the fundamental differences of the two, people who write the
way they speak are considered sloppy, and people who speak the way
they write are considered boring.