The Written Word can be a Dangerous Thing

By Lyndell Miller
Published: 8/8/2009

The written word. It has become so much a part of our everyday lives that we English-speaking peoples take it for granted. But, have you ever wondered if the words you were writing were conveying the message you had in mind?

"....Speaking to one of our local University English professors the other day (yes I live in a college town), I was asking him how I could make people understand what I was trying to write? He said, "You can't! Because the English language is the only language in the world that relies as much on tone and inflection for the meaning as it does the written words. That's why good writers add a lot of colorful and graphic language to try to paint a mental image in the readers mind. "

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