I tend to write and speak pretty similarly depending on the situation. Something informal like a comment thread, I write a lot closer to the way I actually spea

I tend to write and speak pretty similarly depending on the situation. Something informal like a comment thread, I write a lot closer to the way I actually speak. Though...I probably swear a lot less. Formal writing though is something totally different. Whatever kind of writing you have to think of the audience and the tone you want to convey. When I want to write conversationally, I try and emulate the way I talk, when I want to write in a different way, I change the tone of my writing. This comment went more towards the formal, explanatory style in the end I suppose. I've always found context matters the most for the tone of writing though. Sometimes a natural, conversational style emulating the way you speak is good, sometimes not. But it's the same for speaking as well. Speaking in front of people or in some kind of formal situation is a totally different kind of speaking than chillin' with your friends at a party. You don't speak the same way in those two situations, it's the same with writing. It always depends on the audience and the context.