The Mastery Of A Language & Its Impact On Content Creating.

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Context is everything when it comes to writing because one's command of a language often determines the degree to which one'll be able to use words to construct sentences. I used to think the English language is the most complex and even till now, I'm not sure if that's true or not.

One of the reasons why I say so is how we can use almost the same sentences in different constructs to entirely mean different things or create different impressions. I haven't studied other languages to know if they've got as much depth as the English language does and it's been.

English isn't my first language, but a lingua franca, I studied french sometimes ago, but I find it extremely uninspiring. Maybe it was because I am too old to understand it or because of the circumstances involved, but then I did find it to be in-depth as English. It had its rules, but there was nothing colorful or magical about it.


Being Lettered: possessing The Command

One thing is, I am not an excellent user, of the English language, I like to think I do fairly well especially when it comes to writing. However, I like to think that being an avid reader enhanced this. A lot of people feel that being educated necessary means being able to write or speak well or command the knowledge of the English language.

This isn't true. English is mainly learned, there are differences between being smart, and intelligent or being well-lettered. One's command of a language, the English language for example is being mistaken for intelligence when it's only a medium of expression.

Although this is a monetizable skill, the ability to creatively express is monetizable and during practical journalism classes, I came to understand accent as a tool in marketing strategy. Who would have thought that? Well, I got to understand that accents can serve as a marketing tool in a business transaction, hence, the more reason a spoken mastery is different from mastery in writing.


Language: In Relativity To Hive

Let's be factual, the English language is sellable, especially on the Blockchain, recently we've seen the Spanish community thrive due to some curators curating Spanish-based content thereby creating more diversity and equality to language influence on rewards. (Hopefully, this can apply to other languages soon enough) Because language and expertise are a way to communicate content, it's important to convey content in universal languages, hence creating an appeal or increasing one's consumer base.

However, it's not enough to have a good understanding of the language, sometimes it boils down to descriptive and narrative abilities especially when the intent of the content, is to firstly for aesthetics, impression, and then lastly reward. While a curator might curate by familiarity or curation rewards, another one might just take a look at value and aesthetical value.


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Choosing A Title For Your Blog Post.

Let's face it, most English writers write their posts before even choosing the title. This is because content ideas are vague, elaborate, and opaque. Another reason is that content idea are indefinite. Most times people write " as they go" this means not having initial intentions, but allowing their knowledge to generate more knowledge, concepts band ideas.

Because of this, choosing a title for a blog post can be tricky. This is because of language preference. Some people like to give off very little information on their title, to leave the suspense for the main post, while this is a tool to forestall curiosity, someone some readers want to get 50% of the gist from the title.

However, I'd say the majority are attracted to the epic titles, some would prefer to just get a little or no idea from the title, rather than already predicting the post by looking at the title.


Creating An Identify

However it is, it's important to create an emblem as a writer, this way, you can understand your style of writing and stamp this impression on others too. One of the things I do when choosing a title is make sure it covers the dominant theme in the post. (That's if I don't have a title already after writing a post) Another thing is making your titleless wordy

This means cutting down irrelevancies, rather than crowding a title with too much description or narratives, this is different from even giving off too much information from a title.

But then, finding the right topic can be a hassle, sometimes we try to create a balance. However, some authors do not bother because there are no incentives for all this precision. However, it personally enhances the abilities of a writer to get better at content creation in general.




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Good points and indeed choosing a universal language for your content creation is imperative to reach a broader public. Not only that but I find some languages more easily to write on than others...

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Exactly, although it might seem like it would be difficult for non-universal language speaker to understand the reason, but then it even help one to gain traction. Thanks for stopping by.

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Understanding how the language works is very important. Writing in that language and engaging in that language are great ways to get better at it too.

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Exactly, understand is important, sometimes this also helps one towards attaining perfection. I became better at writing and speaking in English when I started creating contents online. I had to do better, so I learned.

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The ability to convey messages with a language, especially with a universal language like English, is key to delivering content.

The more one relates and takes time to understand the depths of the language the easier it is to write content and relate with other content writers as well.

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I mean, English and Spanish seems to me like a predominant language used on Hive. I feel that since I already speak English, at least I could do better especially with using it to create contents. There are other elements and guile to speaking or writing English and the language is just too deep, I think we keep learning till the end of time

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... I think we keep learning till the end of time.

Yes. At the end of the day, we can never know it all. We can only keep doing our best each time.

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Hmmm I've been taught these tips before but I guess there's skill or talent to it too... Being able to give good titles to post and creating identity with your readers.

English nor be our own but we try our best to improve on it... I don't think one can be perfect with a borrowed language, he can only improve on it... Maybe I'm wrong though.

Thanks for this, I'll just need to learn how to improve my English, title and identity creation... You seem to be doing that very well already 🙂

I thought I was the only one who gives title after done writing 😅

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Hmmm I've been taught these tips before but I guess there's skill or talent to it too... Being able to give good titles to post and creating identity with your readers.

Hahaha well, I guess it's not that bad to keep hammering on the tips. They eventually become like an attitude or a lifestyle we cultivate on the Chain.

Thanks for this, I'll just need to learn how to improve my English, title and identity creation... You seem to be doing that very well already
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Well in my overzealousness sometimes I made mistakes, not intentional, mostly typographical but overtime I've chosen to make less of these unintentional as time goes on. It's not our mother's tongue anyways.

I thought I was the only one who gives title after done writing 😅

It's a "thing" mainly cultivated by creative people hahaha.

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They eventually become like an attitude

Yeah, I'm working towards that... The words have been said countless times... It's left for me to implement them even though I would be bad at it sometimes 😊

I've chosen to make less of these unintentional as time goes on

And that's a good one, you're get better at it more and more

It's a "thing" mainly cultivated by creative people

I guess I'm one of them... I'm honored 😌😅🤣

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Sure, you're one of the creative people I know here, brilliant content, great engagement ability.

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You are right about the title, many authors don't put much importance on their title and just put in anything that comes to mind without even having a think on what that best suit. I love your post titles most especially this, as it gives a general theme of what I would be expecting to read.

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Thanks man, yeah, I take like three to four minutes renumerating and pondering on what my title should seem like and because I try to cover the range, it becomes something I should carefully do. It's quite really important to pay attention to picking titles for one's posts.

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One's command of a language, the English language for example is being mistaken for intelligence when it's only a medium of expression.

this is absolutely correct and I have tried to explain this to many Nigerians because i see misunderstood this for intelligence most times.

I don't find English language easy for me but one thing i make sure is the information I'm trying to pass is understood.

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Hahaha, well you're right, mostly what I try to do is to improve my ability to do better with the language because of my self-improvement process and because it's a language I write my contents in.

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I don't think I am that great of a writer and I am definitely the type of person who just writes what I want and then go back to the title afterward. I do think there are tools out there to at least make your words more readable without so many grammar mistakes. There is so much I need to work on but I guess I will just try to get better over time.

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Using some of such tools have improved me greatly, I wouldn't lie. I don't think of myself as a great writer as well. I just try as much as possible to improve and make impact with my content. Writing in English for example is wild. You don't get to learn everything.

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I feel like I've been hit by a stray bullet.😓 You've carefully analyzed things I'm struggling with and I feel guilty.

Good thing is I'm willing to improve and I'm trying my best. Giving my posts befitting titles seem to be the hardest part of writing for me.

I guess with good guidelines like this, more reading and learning, I'll be able to do better. Thank you for the enlightenment.

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Make alot of sense in this writeup, I really learnt. Joining hive made me improve my writing and English skill, most time i can't pronounce or spell a word i check goggle because it suit my write up.

About french, it remember when i was in secondary school, that was the last time i learnt french it was really a cool subject but i read it just to pass..lol

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Me gustó la parte del título yo los hago breve al menos trato de hacerlo breve para colocar los dos idiomas y la indicación de los dos idiomas y me identifique con mucho de lo que escribiste

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