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August 7,2008
In this issue:
Today's
Tip: Wake them up
Feature Article: What's YOUR Style? Melliloquent? Dentiloquent? Omniloquent?
Quotes & Sayings: More about games
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Today's Tip: Wake them up
Change something to wake up your audience. Any variation in pace, volume, sentence structure, stage position, or prop use will refocus your listeners. Drop your voice to a whisper. Move to the front of the stage. Display a physical prop. Speed up your speech, or, slow it down.

Feature Article:What's YOUR Style? Melliloquent? Dentiloquent? Omniloquent?
The dog days of August seem like a good time for a less serious look at public speaking. Last week's newspaper Word-Find puzzle included the speech styles in the title and many more. I chose these three to head the article because I think you can probably guess what they mean, especially when you know that the latin, 'loqui', means 'to speak'. I think you will really appreciate the definition of the last one.
My search for definitions of some of the less obvious style names, eg. stultiloquent, led me to a wonderful website that lists dozens of styles of speaking. This discovery led me an idea for expanding your speaking prowess.
Take a couple of paragraphs from a presentation you have already written. Go to the website and select 6 different styles, some positive, some negative. Then, present your two paragraphs in each of the styles. Tape yourself if you can, or, just listen to how you sound, and, note how you feel as you change from a negative to a positive style.
Or, if the dog days have you in their sway, just browse the list, and, enjoy the words. Here is the website:
http://phrontistery.info/speech.html

Today's Quotes: More about games
"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning
game"
---
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, (German Playwright, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist. 1749-1832)
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It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts "
--- Addison (Mort) Walker, cartoonist
and its companion saying---
There are easier things in life than trying to find a nice guy...like nailing jelly to a tree for example


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