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

[Lyle H Saxon <llletters@example.com>]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Benjamin Tayehanpour
<benjamin@example.com> wrote:
> 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.

Very well said!

LHS