And I think if you lose the oral tradition, if you don’t speak your thoughts out loud and make them into a speech then you lose something too. It’s also the ability to think. I find my modes of communication in writing, and speech way different to the extent that I’ve taken to Verbally responding to things; recording that; transcribing that; and then putting that into writing, because I find like the process of writing maybe because it’s cross pollinate it too much with my work as a programmer uses a different part of myself and a lot of the time ends up going on like long tangents to explain everything in agonizingly stupid legalistic detail wheras in speech, I would just get straight to the fucking point. Obviously, your mileage may vary my insights here may only apply to myself, and certainly not gonna apply to everyone I think.

However, what I’m saying, reminds me of what Haruki Murakami talks about as his process for writing I think in his earliest novels anyway, he even mentioned trying to write it as if he was speaking it but certainly he writes his novels in English first and then translates them back in the Japanese, because he finds that’s how he expresses his authentic voice. Kind of hilarious to have such lauded post modern writer, write in a way where his pre-translated works are then translated back into English else. Reminds me too of fight club / chuck Palahniuk copy of a copy of a copy. Yet in Murakami‘s case it seems to create rather than erode quality.

Of course there’s always the issue of the very low quality transcription available in a by default in iPhone and android keyboards. The voice typing sucks and so you always get some weird homonyms inside probably there’s some in his comment to.