Advice to authors and public speakers
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Advice to authors and public speakers
In promulgating your esoteric cogitations, or articulating your superficial sentimentalities and amicable, philosophical or psychological observations, beware of platitudinous ponderosity. Let your conversational communications possess a clarified conciseness, a compact comprehensibility, coalescent consistency, and a concatenated cogency. Eschew all conglomerations of flatulent garrulity, jejune babblement and asinine affectations.
Let your extemporaneous descantings and unpremeditated expatiations have intelligibility and veracious vivacity, without rhodomontade or thrasonical bombast. Sedulously avoid all polysyllabic profundity, pompous prolixity, psittaceous vacuity, ventriloquial verbosity, and vaniloquent vapidity. Shun double-entendres, prurient jocosity, and pestiferous profanity, obscurant or apparent.
In other words, talk plainly, briefly, naturally, sensibly, truthfully, purely. Keep from slang; don't put on airs; say what you mean; mean what you
say.
And DON'T USE BIG WORDS!
-Anon-
Let your extemporaneous descantings and unpremeditated expatiations have intelligibility and veracious vivacity, without rhodomontade or thrasonical bombast. Sedulously avoid all polysyllabic profundity, pompous prolixity, psittaceous vacuity, ventriloquial verbosity, and vaniloquent vapidity. Shun double-entendres, prurient jocosity, and pestiferous profanity, obscurant or apparent.
In other words, talk plainly, briefly, naturally, sensibly, truthfully, purely. Keep from slang; don't put on airs; say what you mean; mean what you
say.
And DON'T USE BIG WORDS!
-Anon-
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You may not believe it, but that has been circulating since at least 1982! I used to have a copy of it when I was in high school, but lost it many years back. A kid I knew back then gave it as an informal speech in class one day and we were all mesmerized. I don't believe he was the original author, but I think it's neat to still see it being passed around.
And it's sooooooo true!
Hugs,
Kyra
You may not believe it, but that has been circulating since at least 1982! I used to have a copy of it when I was in high school, but lost it many years back. A kid I knew back then gave it as an informal speech in class one day and we were all mesmerized. I don't believe he was the original author, but I think it's neat to still see it being passed around.
And it's sooooooo true!
Hugs,
Kyra
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Re: Advice to authors and public speakers
Very much in the style of A.J. Leibling's underworld characters' speech.
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Hey, I got an excuse, I just joined...
Anywho, your polysyllabic profundity was sensationalism personified!!!
Anywho, your polysyllabic profundity was sensationalism personified!!!
Anna x
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What seems like the right thing to do could also be the hardest thing you have ever done in your life.
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Re: Advice to authors and public speakers
Or to put it another way KISS
Keep
It
Simple
Stupid!
Keep
It
Simple
Stupid!
Paula
Just because you don't believe it, that doesn't mean it's not true
Just because you don't believe it, that doesn't mean it's not true