Ong's Article and Mona's Summary

I couldn't agree more with Mona about Ong's article. Of course writing restructures thought but it isn't the perfect form of communication. Nothing really is or will be. Writing is good for some things and not for others. Just as Mona mentioned things are sometimes lost in translation and this definitely affects how we read things, as well as, how we structure our opinions and ideas based on the texts were reading. Oral Speech isn't perfect, of course, but nothing is. Still, Oral articulation often provides more of an emotional response than writing often does and I think by Ong saying that writing delegates more power to individual words than oral speech does is wrong. I know that if someone said "I Love You" to me face to face I would find it way more powerful than if someone said it to me through a text or email and that's where Ong's argument falls flat for me.
I also agree with Mona about how Ong diminishes oral cultures intellectual ability. Oral cultures are no less smart or analytical than written cultures and to say so is kind of ignorant.