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RE: Rant: Do people write letters anymore? - 8/27/2008 4:26:02 PM

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I really believe I'm the opposite here when it comes to contact. I really hate IMs with a passion. I'll gladly compose long emails and engage in long conversations, mainly because I'm a writer, and I communicate in that realm very well. I was seeing one woman not too long ago who was very much into IMs, and it became very frustrating for me, to the point where I realized that it just wasn't going to work out between us because the atmosphere of IMing can often bring about misunderstandings that well-composed letters and email are designed to avoid.

Personally, I believe that composition writing between people is a dying art, and it fades further every day.

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RE: Rant: Do people write letters anymore? - 8/27/2008 10:04:05 PM

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I never saw email as a letter.... more like a memorandum on scratch paper.
And IM.. is like shouting questions and answers back and forth across a crowded busy room.

My grandmother used to kvetch about me typing my letters to her. So I wrote in cursive... she asked me to go back to typing.

Formal correspondence isn't being taught in school any more. And I can't see that formal handwritten thank you notes are any better than a phone call or email saying thanks.

Does the correspondence actuallly have anything to communicate?
Does it communicate what is intended in a manner that is intelligible to the recipient?

All else is ritual and changes with time and culture.

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RE: Rant: Do people write letters anymore? - 8/27/2008 10:16:27 PM

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ORIGINAL: AAkasha

It's not an officialy rant, because I am not really *upset*, but a little irritated and wonder if this is a fluke, or a sign of the new generation.
Let me preface this by saying that I am not accusing ANYONE who posts or reads here of this; if anything you are the counter to what I am talking about, because you actually take pleasure in reading and writing thoughts and opinions. But are you experiencing what I am about to describe also?

It seems that people online don't want to write letters. I call them letters, but I mean emails - it seems that emails and the idea of emails has been reduced to a series of a couple of lines, following by a request to go to IM. The IM format is better for the kind of dialogue people want, because it's back and forth and short and quick. Granted, that serves a purpose. But I enjoy reading and writing letters. The kind you sit down and compose, share thoughts and feelings, pontificate a little, ramble. Even a short email is fine - but some thoughts and feelings and ideas in those short lines would be nice.

Very few people seem -- well, verbose. Again, those reading/writing on collarchat are obviously the exception. So I assume that like me, you all like to read a long letter and respond to it. Or, is it just me? Is the preference to keep it short and sweet and get right to IM and phone? Is there any purpose for longer forms of communication?

Akasha

I actually do. I resp[ond often with emails and if the association looks like becomming a lasting one irrespective if it be a potential collar or a friendship, I ask for and expect a postal address. I prefer to write letters by hand using both Copperplate calligraphy with multiple swirls and flourishes and Victorian/Edwardian writing style which became more my natural style yeas ago, or I use the half unical Irish text of the 9thC calligraphy of which I have some moderst claim of being amongst the elite of the caligraphers using the style found in the fabled book of kells. In any case it becomes obvious to the recpient that For me to take the trouble of putting quill (yes I use hand cut quills) to parchment is a mark of my regard for them..

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RE: Rant: Do people write letters anymore? - 8/28/2008 3:41:35 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: littlesarbonn

I really believe I'm the opposite here when it comes to contact. I really hate IMs with a passion. I'll gladly compose long emails and engage in long conversations, mainly because I'm a writer, and I communicate in that realm very well. I was seeing one woman not too long ago who was very much into IMs, and it became very frustrating for me, to the point where I realized that it just wasn't going to work out between us because the atmosphere of IMing can often bring about misunderstandings that well-composed letters and email are designed to avoid.

Personally, I believe that composition writing between people is a dying art, and it fades further every day.

LS, I respect your writing talent and I can see your point, but why limit yourself to one way of communicating? There's nothing wrong with indepth email, but IM's add a new dimension. It is a relaxed way to exchange thoughts. I want to see how she will immediately respond to my humor, my serious thoughts or what have you without having time to carefully craft her response. A Rorschach test of sorts.

On a practical side I also learn much about her intelligence from her writing from the spelling, grammar and general knowledge that she doesn't have time to look up.

I'll also go one further. SOME chatrooms can give you a good insight into how someone interacts with others. I realize a lot of rooms are impolite electronic riots, but some are quite good for watching social interaction.

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