Is there a writing form of articulate?

Chris The Hacker · 19-02-2014 01:39PM #1

To articulate your thoughts is to express your thoughts in speech.

Is there a writing form of this, like: "to literate your thoughts in text/writing" or something?

Can "literate" be used as a verb?

P. Breathnach · 19-02-2014 02:45PM

I think that you have answered your question in the words in which you framed it: to express your thoughts in writing. Or simply write.

The adjective is more tricky, because the adjective articulate denotes a good quality of speaking. For writing, I'd often use lucid.

odds_on · 22-02-2014 02:14PM

Epistolize your thoughts, possibly.

catallus · 22-02-2014 02:22PM

I don't see why the word "articulate" cannot be used for writing; one can speak articulately while slurring words; they would not be enunciating correctly, but that wouldn't detract from what they were saying, much the same way as bad handwriting doesn't take away from the ideas being expressed by a writer.

catallus · 22-02-2014 02:38PM

As mentioned already, elucidate would do if you're really pushed about it.

Yakuza · 24-02-2014 10:11AM

How about "enumerate"? It can just mean to list out, but it can also (at least to me) have connotations of an ordered, cogent/structured sequence.

catallus · 24-02-2014 02:17PM

I always thought enumerate was just a fancy word for "count"?

Yakuza · 24-02-2014 05:00PM

That is one of its meanings, for sure, but it can also be used when listing out a series of things (usually in the context of giving an opinion or a series of arguments for or against something).

Earthhorse · 24-02-2014 10:08PM

It's not a synonym for articulate though.

Is there a writing form of articulate?

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