When I was younger I'd have said that how you write and what you say were as independent as shape and color. But that's not true.
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I can imitate Gibbon's style of writing, but if I do it makes me say different things.
And if different writing styles make you say different things, that raises interesting questions.
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Are there styles that make you smarter, or more honest? Because if so you should consciously seek them out.
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It's called poetry
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here's a really fundamental example of ithttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distancing_language …
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interviews with Japanese housewives of Americans found they expressed different values depending on what language was spoken to them
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A wise friend once told me of the "method of the virtual guru" 1/
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If stuck on a problem, ask yourself "Who do I know who would have clever things to say about this?" 2/
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it starts even earlier than that: languages frame what you can think and say
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