Writing does have advantages!!!!!!

Once at the university someone told me that “writing is the means trough wich speech can be transmited and preserved", and that made me think a lot of things, for example, how people who didn't write preserved speech and knowledge of their ancient culture? and then, just then I realized that there are some cultures that only have an oral tradition and have no writing system, so writing is not the only way of transmiting and preserving speech, orality is a different and ancient way of preserving speech and knowledge.


Nevertheless, because of its tradition we cannot understimate writing, this activity has evolved trough all times, actually "writing must be understood as a technology and therefore as artificial", nowdays writing involves many tools that took years of evolution like the pen, the paper, the pencil, the eraser, the computers and so on. writing is also artificial because in contrast with the naturality of oral speech, we are concious all the time what writing implies, it's a harder work than speaking, writing doesn't "flow" as speaking.


On the other hand a good thing about writing is that "it establishes a context free language, an autonomus discourse that can be doubted or directly questioned because the written discourse is separated from its author", of course we can question a text, but it will never be separated from its author, there will be a bond that always will take the reader to the text source, so when we are reading a text we are reading a llitle bit of its author personality.


At the end we can say that writing is such a great activity, as complexed as itself, it helps you to train your brain, because it involves deep reflection in order to shape undestandable ideas, I dare to say that writing strengthen memory and thought.

Jhon Alexander.