Speech and writing - related?

ee33ee
Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:35:32 +0000

Are the best writers at your school also the most articulate speakers? By speech, I mean what comes out every time they open their mouths and not the prepared, formal ones.

As someone with a mild articulation disorder that has definitely dumbed down my everyday talk, the biggest aid to my writing was consciously divorcing written language from spoken language.

I’m really curious to find out if anyone else has felt this way, that the simplicity of speech has gotten in the way of stringing together complex ideas, that the directness of speech has gotten in the way of variety, that speech’s unique protocol has gotten in the way of writing prose that might never be appropriate for speaking by a modern teenager?