Post by account_disabled on Dec 24, 2023 6:49:16 GMT
When I write for the web, and I mean posts and articles of various kinds, I always address it as "you". It's something I've always done, because I like to think I'm addressing the public and not the individual. However, I read that on the web you should address yourself as "you", but I just can't do it. Writing for the web is in some ways quite similar to creative writing . There is a narrator who speaks to the audience. Reading Anglo-Saxon stories and novels, we discover that the narrator, the narrator, speaks in the informal manner.
But this only in the Italian translation. In reality, when English and American writers and bloggers say "you" they refer to the second person singular, therefore to you and not to you. It was a question I had Special Data always asked myself and finally I decided to ask for explanations in an American writing forum. But that's creative writing, some might argue. What changes, however, from a communication point of view ? Both types of writing must communicate something to the reader. If on the one hand, in creative writing, there is a narrator who we can imagine sitting to tell us his story, perhaps in front of a fireplace or around a table, on the other, in writing for the web, there is the same narrator – blogger, columnist, etc.
Which we can hypothesize in front of a desk or an audience of people during an event or even sitting in the place of the narrator from before, at a table. Both of these narrators are addressing an audience, a multitude, not the individual. Why, then, be familiar? A blog is not a closed structure, but an open one. If I write on a blog it is not to address one person, but to anyone who reads. Maybe with tu you want to create a sort of harmony between blogger and reader? Reduce distances? Or perhaps you want to emulate the Anglo-Saxon world?
But this only in the Italian translation. In reality, when English and American writers and bloggers say "you" they refer to the second person singular, therefore to you and not to you. It was a question I had Special Data always asked myself and finally I decided to ask for explanations in an American writing forum. But that's creative writing, some might argue. What changes, however, from a communication point of view ? Both types of writing must communicate something to the reader. If on the one hand, in creative writing, there is a narrator who we can imagine sitting to tell us his story, perhaps in front of a fireplace or around a table, on the other, in writing for the web, there is the same narrator – blogger, columnist, etc.
Which we can hypothesize in front of a desk or an audience of people during an event or even sitting in the place of the narrator from before, at a table. Both of these narrators are addressing an audience, a multitude, not the individual. Why, then, be familiar? A blog is not a closed structure, but an open one. If I write on a blog it is not to address one person, but to anyone who reads. Maybe with tu you want to create a sort of harmony between blogger and reader? Reduce distances? Or perhaps you want to emulate the Anglo-Saxon world?