On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, ALI ALIZADEH wrote...
>A compostion by
>an
>author (on the paper or in the mind, on a stone tablet or on the computer
>screen) is
>NOT spontaneous speech.
The counterpart to constructed speech would be spontaneous writing, and
I guess the way many people use e-mail could be thought of as this. I
mean the sort of email exchanges that sometimes consist of only one
sentence, as if the participants were conversing face to face. This way
of thinking about email is borne out by its notorious ability to
generate misunderstandings and consequent flames. The problem is that
there's none of the non-verbal communication that there would be in a
real face to face conversation. You don't get that effect so much when
people exchange letters. Perhaps that's because letters tend to be more
constructed.
Just a thought.
Regards,
--
Peter
http://www.hphoward.demon.co.uk/poetry/
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