Written Over Spoken

Written Over Spoken
By Joey Arnold
Thursday: 09/24/2009

Written language has form, it has shape that can be sizzled onto stone, onto caves, feathered onto animal skins, it can be visualized, it can be remembered, it can be translated, it can be colored, it can be read, it can be copied, written on a typewriter, on your keyboard, save it to a disk, back it up, copy and paste it, share it, fax it, sell it in a book, a letter, a postcard, a comic strip, a love story, a title to a store. I say all of this in complete contrast to the lesser, to the spoken counterpart to this very subject of communication, to oral tradition, which has been passed on since the dawn of time, but what has not been totally remembered by word of mouth, especially when the old man dies.
Now, much value, to the written form, to the written side of things, are in fact influenced from the spoken side, writings do in fact derive from verbal communication, even to the extent to nonverbal communication, or simple to the tone of voice, or to the circumstances to what is going on. When you are reading this, how can you be for sure that I am not being sarcastic in any of this? Can you completely know what is being said without looking at my body language? If you cannot see it, will you choose not to believe it, to believe in the value of written language, will you cease to have faith in what is written? In generality, or in my opinion alone, written communication really can transcend into the scope of nonverbal clues, to art itself, to anything that you can see with your eyes (or possibly to what is felt, if that is not intersect with the definition behind spoken communication). Written language really can be anything you see, the very art that this world is made up of, since art is visual, it is design, it is symbolic, since a picture really does say thousands of words, depending on the size and value behind that picture (especially that Mono Lisa painting, which would have to be ten thousand words).

In conclusion, I will just have to bow down and worship what is written. I would like to attach nonverbal body language to the definition to what is written because it cannot be verbal communication and it should not be stranded out by itself as a third scope to communication.
Society craves the newspapers. We eat up books. We probably read more than we listen. At the end of the day, our eyes are much more tired than our ears, usually. Or is that just true because I wear glasses? But you know that written language is very necessary, for you are reading it right now.

Society will never get enough of written language, and the conclusions, the reasons, the argument, for this case, as already seen, in complete contrast to what is spoken, are endless, the examples are everywhere, and you can take that to the bank (or you can just eat it up).