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Unless you talk in a monotone, talking and typing are inherently different. Talking has a dramatically higher bandwidth, because you can alter the pitch, stress, and semantic meaning simultaneously.

For example, sarcasm is trivial with spoken communication, and remarkably hard in written.



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