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But Gibbon's source apparatus and sotto voce commentary in Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire remain more accessible and entertaining to ordinary readers.
When it was used, it was used, as Ashley Montagu said, "sotto voce , like a smuggler cautiously making his way across a forbidden frontier."
Those who attend academic conferences soon come to dread the speaker who reads aloud a paper meant to be read in a journal: it is almost impossible to assimilate its information because none of the normal communicative devices used in viva voce communication are present--repetition being among them.
That is patent rubbish, of course, for it can easily be demonstrated that written language cannot be ignored for a variety of reasons: the more formalized versions of language that are reflected there, the relatively complex constructions that are accepted as normal to writing but would be difficult to construct viva voce and difficult to assimilate unless read, the preservation of fossilized forms--both words and grammar--made possible by written records, and so on.
It ill behooves me, excoriated recently as enamored of the “cheap larf,” to criticize Safire's arch puns, which permeate—“enliven” is probably the word his editor would use—his articles, but I find some kinds of humor unsuitable for reading, however they might evoke a chuckle when uttered viva voce . A handful of examples, from the book at hand: