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| No house should ever be ON a hill. It should be OF the hill. |
Two fusty but feisty academics rue the demise of edited writing.
Ac 01: "I went looking for a quote
on architecture. There was the usual wisdom from the greats, like Frank Lloyd
Wright saying, 'No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be
of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the
happier for the other.' Then there was a bunch of quotes from celebrities, there
was one from a some singer who was quoted as saying 'Architecture? Yes, that’s
something I like.'”
Ac 02: Huh. I know what you mean. A banal spoken aside
gets listed as a famous quote just because it came out of a mouth that
thousands of teenagers go to see at a rock concert?
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Voice-over
Dredging through the amount
of banal spoken speech recorded as written speech is becoming daunting.
Was something lost when we
stopped deciphering the squiggles of print and instead began squinting at
digital flickers?
And in writing, does a thrown
together salad count for more than a measured slice of sashimi? Is the
contemporary digital-driven preference for the short and sharp the victory of the Spontaneous
over the Rehearsed?
Perhaps it just depends on
where you are looking.
The table below suggests a
continuum: informal to formal; short to long, staccato to smooth, bullet points
to reasoned argument and creative writing… The medium
message
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email
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microblog
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blog
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website
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e-book
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private
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private
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public
(private)
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public
(private)
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public
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public
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SMS,
WhatsApp, LINE
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@gmail,
@yahoo, Outlook
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Twitter
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blogspot
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.com
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