[hef19898]

Maybe the issue is that its rare for an audiance of a speach to make the difference between the way the content is communicated and the content itself. Agreed, in a speach the way is the raison-d'être. But when you are good in writting, which I'm not, I guess it can ruin your day in a speach that you are unable to transport your message as you are used to in an essay. If pg meant that in his essay, I agree that the idea counts less in a speach than it does in an essay. But you could well make the same point in a speach about essays, if you get what I mean. P.S.: Apparently, I'm even worse in writing as I thought...