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Writing Is Objectively Superior to Speaking as a Communication Method (2020)
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Re: Writing Is Objectively Superior to Speaking as a Communication Method (2020)
#12Sounds like the word this person should have used is "subjective". Writing is subjectively superior to speaking, from inside their head. For a lot of people it is not superior, or is only superior in certain situation, inferior in others.
Re: Writing Is Objectively Superior to Speaking as a Communication Method (2020)
#13There are types of communication that are best done by writing, and others that are best done by speaking.
When someone tries to communicate in writing something which is better handled by speaking, it's tedious and slow.
When someone tries to communicate by speaking something which is better handled by writing, it's tedious and slow.
A lot of Youtube videos and podcasts fall into the latter category, so like the author, I find myself getting annoyed about it a lot these days. Rather than spend 10 minutes watching the video, I prefer to spend 30 seconds reading the closed caption transcript.
However, this doesn't mean the former category doesn't exist.
Re: Writing Is Objectively Superior to Speaking as a Communication Method (2020)
#14I think that the author is a little mixed up and is /actually/ saying that 'Reading is Objectively Superior to Listening as a Communication Method'. Writing != Reading and as someone building an app powered by dictation that turns speech into text for the reader to consume... speaking is fast, reliable and powerful and reading is fast, reliable and powerful. On the other hand typing (especially on mobile, but even on…
listening is good for multitasking . both formats have pros and cons. you can listen to a book in the car for example.
Listening requires so much focus from me that if I try to multitask I’ll just realize, after a span of seconds to minutes, that I’ve not heard a single word that was said. It’ll happen again as soon as I pick the multitasking back up.
May as well read or watch a video. Same focus required either way.
Though I do think I’m unusual. Basically can’t enjoy podcasts the way most people do, which is a bummer.
In hindsight, the high school calculus teacher who forced us to take notes while they lectured, and got upset if you stopped, was not setting me up for success. I’d get to the end with a bunch of notes but having understood nothing I heard, because I was too busy transcribing to actually listen. I knew she was messing me up at the time and what I needed to be able to do to succeed, but it took me years to realize it’s a general problem I have. Can’t take information in unless my attention is undivided.
Re: Writing Is Objectively Superior to Speaking as a Communication Method (2020)
#15I think that the author is a little mixed up and is /actually/ saying that 'Reading is Objectively Superior to Listening as a Communication Method'. Writing != Reading and as someone building an app powered by dictation that turns speech into text for the reader to consume... speaking is fast, reliable and powerful and reading is fast, reliable and powerful. On the other hand typing (especially on mobile, but even on…
listening is good for multitasking . both formats have pros and cons. you can listen to a book in the car for example.
From my experience with "multitaskers," it isn't possible with listening either.
Re: Writing Is Objectively Superior to Speaking as a Communication Method (2020)
#16It is if you're a smart person. The bottom 70% of the IQ range has a really hard time with fast reading comprehension. Even people in white collar jobs. It's not something people admit, they even hide it, but it's something you can't help but notice.
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Re: Writing Is Objectively Superior to Speaking as a Communication Method (2020)
#17I think that the author is a little mixed up and is /actually/ saying that 'Reading is Objectively Superior to Listening as a Communication Method'. Writing != Reading and as someone building an app powered by dictation that turns speech into text for the reader to consume... speaking is fast, reliable and powerful and reading is fast, reliable and powerful. On the other hand typing (especially on mobile, but even on…
listening is good for multitasking . both formats have pros and cons. you can listen to a book in the car for example.
If the material isn't important to me, then maybe casual listening will work. But if I need to follow closely and understand, then audio is terrible. If I miss a word or mis-parse a sentence, I can't rescan.
I would much rather read than listen.
Re: Writing Is Objectively Superior to Speaking as a Communication Method (2020)
#18> Faced with this sort of argument, a lot of people will pay lipservice to the need for things like body language, facial expressions, and eye contact, but as an antisocial autistic person, I am afraid that I can't bring myself to understand the importance for such things (if it even exists.)
That sentence is the key to the whole article. Koshka doesn't understand that multiple, simultaneous channels of information give richer information than the strict meaning of the text.
If you don't believe that information is conveyed through body language, facial expressions, and eye contact, then try watching a movie in a language that you don't understand, without subtitles.
Re: Writing Is Objectively Superior to Speaking as a Communication Method (2020)
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
listening is good for multitasking . both formats have pros and cons. you can listen to a book in the car for example.
Listening requires so much focus from me that if I try to multitask I’ll just realize, after a span of seconds to minutes, that I’ve not heard a single word that was said. It’ll happen again as soon as I pick the multitasking back up. May as well read or watch a video. Same focus required either way. Though I do think I’m unusual. Basically can’t enjoy podcasts the way most people do, which is a bummer. In hindsight,…
I guess we're both "unusual" then.
Re: Writing Is Objectively Superior to Speaking as a Communication Method (2020)
#20> Faced with this sort of argument, a lot of people will pay lipservice to the need for things like body language, facial expressions, and eye contact, but as an antisocial autistic person, I am afraid that I can't bring myself to understand the importance for such things (if it even exists.) That sentence is the key to the whole article. Koshka doesn't understand that multiple, simultaneous channels of information g…
Right.
My wife and I went to Germany once and my wife, being in TV/movies/theater, took me to some German theater... which was obviously all in German... which she speaks, and I don't. Thanks love /s
Anyway, although I couldn't understand what was being _said_, I could understand what was being _shown_ to me _visually_. I got the idea of each scene: that guy is a gangster and has a blood feud with that guy, who is chasing that chick's heart, and also is on the run from the cops, and so on.
Without the language, I understood easily 70-80% of what was going on.