The Completeness of the Written Language....
In thinking about chapter 12, I was struck by the differences of the written language and the spoken language. To me, they really seem worlds apart. Whether academic writing or just personal communication,etc...I think that the formation of writing is so much more controlled and manufactured. This is a good thing and a bad thing. When I speak, I often don't think about what I'm saying for a huge period of time first (I often don't think at all!), but when I write I find myself really analyzing my points and my composition. Maybe the completeness of the written language is a huge influence on why politicians and public speakers have WRITTEN speeches...they don't just go out there and say something. They want something that has been controlled, thought over, and in a sense manufactured. I think the most important thing I contemplated this week is just that the written and the spoken are really so different and have very different ways of communicating language.