do you find that...

...you can discover people's thoughts better from what they write than from what they say?

 

No, I don't.

Although I do agree with what you just thought.

 

Just me then

I find that people can disguise what they're thinking with body language etc... but it's harder to disguise your actual thoughts through the written word, your mind is more fully revealed. I find I'm more thoroughly attuned to changes of tone in written language than I am with spoken. Ho hum

 

i agree

 

On the contrary, in my experience body language can betray somebody's thoughts to you. YMMV.

 

Then me and Lozi are special (as in "special needs")

 

aye indeed we is! i can peel a banana with my feet! (probably)

 

I find the written word as discourse can be very easily ambigous, hence the development of the smilie to assist the exchange of ideas.

A written dissertation (?) could be more revealing of the writers thoughts, do they not have to decide what they think before they can write ?

Or too much bud !

 

I often find that the way people write things and what they select to say/not say reveals more about a person than the content of their writing.