i kind of enjoy writing. nowadays it seems mostly pointless, but i guess i'll keep doing it whenever the motivation comes.
in school i really enjoyed it when teachers would read my writings aloud. it wasn't that i cared what my classmates thought of it, but rather i enjoyed hearing it read with the right timing or rhythm. i wonder if others get that enjoyment.
i don't mean to brag or anything, but as a kid i read very well. in connecticut they had a system where you had a book level corresponding to each year as part of the curriculum. fortunately for me, they weren't stupid about it. if you finished the book you could move on to the next year. i was part of a group of maybe 5 kids who were at an 8th grade reading level in the 5th grade.
sadly, my interest in reading went to crap when i moved to texas. they moved me back to the lower levels...which i found boring. also, i would frequently get in trouble because i read faster than most and when it was my turn to read aloud...i'd usually be a few pages ahead and "lost" from where i was supposed to be.
anyway, the point was that i liked hearing my words read in the correct "rhythm".
i wrote something today (not on here), and it kind of required this "skill". i'd like to think someone out there read it right.
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that's true! every language or dialect has its own rhythm, they are modulated like music. Surely you were aware of this since your childhood, being bilingual (I suppose!)
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