Your Blog Like Writing From The Middle Ages?
November 16, 2009 at 8:14 am
Before you shake your head and say “I thinketh not”, consider this:
According to noted linguistic academic, David Crystal, ‘blogs are as close to the way writers talk as it is possible to get’. This is similar to spontaneous letter writing of the Middle Ages which has a very similar set of features. Back then it was the norm to write a stream of consciousness when sharing one’s ideas with others. The only difference was that the medium was letter and so there was a bit of a time lag between idea generation and receipt.
This style of writing was wiped out late in the eighteenth century when publishers developed copy editing standards to ensure that magazines, newspapers and books conformed to an in-house style. I wonder if that will happen to blogging?
For now, however, blogging is ‘written language in its most naked form’, it has no editorial interference.
That will be all. Carry on with your blogging now!
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