Learning to
speak ones language comes natural to
a human being; we learn it without formal instructions. But writing is an unnatural activities;
it must be taught formally and studied deliberately. Indeed many
of the problem that arises
in learning to write are simple problems of finding
the proper written equivalent
for the various features of speech.
The spellings use automatically to give shape and point
to our speaking
The writers of English ( or any other
language) lose a whole word of gesture,
facial expressions and tone of
voice the minute he decide to write something
rather than say it aloud. He
loses the immediacy of direct contact
with his audience. If there were no compensation at all for all these disadvantages, the
communicating with other people
through of squiggles on paper
will be as unsatisfactory as
trying to wash your feet with your
socks on.
Writing takes more effort speech, but
the effort we make
simply to capture our words of paper can
also lead us to compose things that are
worth the effort. The unusual
energy that goes into achieving in any art or sport can and should function
finally to help the individual increase his own and perfect its abilities. Three hundred and fifty years ago, a cleaver man pointed out that practice in
speaking makes a man ‘ ready’
or quick in his response of our
words is a clumsy attempt to
reproduce the sound of our voices. The punctuation of our sentences and the setting of paragraph are design to give some approximations of the pauses and intonation we
, while practice
in writing makes a man ‘
exact’ helps him to polish and perfect
his thoughts.
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