One of the disadvantages of writing which I was thinking about today is that our tones are not completely clear when we write and this could lead to many misconceptions.
We might think a person is screaming at us trying to bite our head off while they were actually just saying something in a normal fashion
We might think a person is blaming or condemning us while they were actually trying to praise us
We might think a person has a total hostile attitude while they claim they couldn’t have stated it any friendlier than what they have…
It’s not like people here are in constant conflict or this place is turning into a battlefield, but what I said remains to be a disadvantage of writing. The feeling you get out of a text when you read it on your own could be completely different from that which the author him/herself had intended to provide you with. It’s a great thing that everyone is free to have his/her own understanding of a text, but to what extent? Sometimes our imaginations take us so far off that the understanding we attain at the end might be totally against the author’s original intention.
Do you feel the same? How do you think this problem can be solved? I personally don’t think authors should guide us step by step I like having the freedom to roam about texts in my own way, yet the problem remains…
