Buck had a pretty interesting say. Indeed it is true how the audience changes the way we write subconsciously on a regular basis. However, it is something I was already partially aware of throughout my life. And it doesn't just work with how we write, it also works with the way we speak and react depending on who we are talking to, or writing to. For example, I have two friends, one whose a comedian, and one I would define as a regular old joe. Whenever I write emails to the normal joe, I would take on a pretty easy going style of writing, not really paying attention to grammar.. a subconscious thing we all do whenever we take on less serious writings. Look at Texting for example. We focus mainly on speed rather then grammar since it's an actual conversational audience, so we will write 'you' as 'u'. Now let's look at how my writing changes up when I write to the comedian. I didn't realize this till yesterday when I looked at my old email replies.. but I joke like a prank factory. Jokes like "We should use Space Book, we can actually post our statuses on corn fields that way! Lol!!" were pretty frequent. And I tended to make a lot of references to the video that's displayed on the media (look for the youtube video on the right of this page.) In other words.. I subconsciously switched to a joking light hearted tone because I knew my audience was the type of person who would appreciate Dragon Ball Z parody humor to a large extent.
The same kind of tone works for Academic blogging as well. When writing blog posts to teachers, even if the teacher says. "Be creative, write about monkeys, I don't care," our natural subconscious inferences about teachers will interfere, and our writing will become naturally more formal. Normally in educational writings with fellow classmates for example, I would fill my writings full of jokes. But in this blog.. I have resorted only to posting a Youtube video.... (Watch the video!! Watch it!! Cause Vegeta is a monkey!!) and only putting any other jokes I have in occasional paranthesis.
