WE envy people with many interesting ideas, but resent those ideas when they are verbally enumerated to us in spitfire fashion. Our minds feel assaulted, violated. Our brains are not wired for the high level of short-term memory required for such information overload.

The mind can tolerate more written words than spoken ones within the same timeframe, but a statement can be as bad a curse to read when it (1) uses too many unrelated or irrelevant details, (2) crams too many ideas in complex constructions, or (3) doesn't show clear relationships between the ideas being presented.