Spoken communication is more powerful than written communication. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

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It is believed that verbal
communication
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is more effective than written one. In my opinion, certain circumstances will decide which way is more powerful than others. On the one hand, when it comes to situations that
requires
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body language or facial expression, oral
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seems to be more useful than
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. An example can be seen in dating. We will have to set up a face-to-face conversation with the person we have feelings for rather than sit at home and send messages. Emotion icons, videos or photos can never replace the real smile and different facial
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during
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cozy
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dinner. Another thing is that meeting and talking directly to each other can help us to have a better understanding of the person we are communicating with. We can easily guess the true feelings or personalities of the person we are talking face-to-face with through his or her
guestures
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gestures
or facial expressions, but we can never do that just by some written text.
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, I think that in terms of law and
bussiness
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business
, written
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appears to
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more important than spoken one. In court,
for example
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, our words can count for nothing if we do not have valid
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such
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as written documents, to support our arguments. Speaking of
bussiness
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business
, it will be much quicker, more time-saving and more convenient for a company to send
an emails
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regarding promotions or sales to
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customers than to meet and talk with
everyone
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of them. In conclusion, for the reasons mentioned above, it seems to me that spoken words are more effective in situations when we need to use our gestures and show our emotion,
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written
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is preferable in law and business.
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