I can communicate and express myself much better and eloquently in writing than I can talking. The way I talk and the way I write are like two different people-you'd never make a connection. In several situations teachers and professors have been so impressed with my literary assignments and when they find out I wrote them, they're surprised, they say "Wow, this was YOU?" People intitially assume I'm an airhead because I have a twangy babyish sounding voice. I also talk really colloquially, I say "y'all", "ain't" "sho" and I also conjugate my verbs wrong when I talk (I's) but I conjugate my verbs perfectly when I write and in foreign languages. But why should I talk in a stilted formal way when I'm conversing with people just to prove that I'm not some ditz? I always thought written language and spoken language should be separate-there's an appropriate setting for each.
2006-07-02
16:55:31
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