David Cantrell 🏏#BertrandRussell had an absurd voice. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00h9lz3/episodes/player
Georgiana BrummellI am seeking people who enjoy #HighCulture i.e. #reading #ClassicLiterature , #elocution , #writing , and #dressing well, good #food and #wine , #DinnerParties , the #UpperClass and #UpperMiddle Class , #ClassicalMusic , #poetry , #opera , #theatre, #museums , #history, #ClassicArt, #antiques , #travelling , #humour , #OldTimeRadio , etc. Also, please #NoPolitics .
WIST Quotations Has Moved!MARTINE: We always speak well when we make ourselves understood.
[MARTINE: Quand on se fait entendre, on parle toujours bien.]
[MARTINE: Quand on se fait entendre, on parle toujours bien.]
Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
Les Femmes Savantes [The Learned Ladies], Act 2, sc. 6, (1692) [tr. Van Laun (1876)]
More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/moliere/79016/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #moliere #clarity #communication #elocution #speaking #understanding
Georgiana BrummellI need to update this with more discoveries. But here is a post I made some time ago about Received Pronunciation. More specifically, it's about Upper RP, my favourite kind. This is when the English language comes alive and sounds like music. I could listen to RP all day long, provided it's Upper or at least Conservative. I have no use for Contemporary. It gives me a headache. Any other suggestions are warmly welcomed, and if you yourself speak in true RP, I would love to get to know you.
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#BBCEnglish #elocution #English #King'sEnglish #language #properEnglish #Received Pronunciation #RP #Queen'sEnglish
Listening to a great lecture on the Crisis of the Third Century. The lecturer has the most awful voice ever but I shall power through. https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/world-of-byzantium #classics #history #elocution
Penny Richardsstarted a #wikipedia article on Amy Allison Grant (born 1880), who gave dramatic readings of poetry and opera libretti in the early 20c: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Allison_Grant @wikiwomeninred #elocution #opera #Chicago
Asr« Chez certains, il y a une certaine habitude de à violence qui s'installe, et il faut la combattre avec beaucoup de... »
A) violence
B) mauvaise foi
C) grenades lacrymogènes
D) fermeté
#elocution #quizz #saintesoline
A) violence
B) mauvaise foi
C) grenades lacrymogènes
D) fermeté
#elocution #quizz #saintesoline
RinguetteThe #iPhone and I have been together through enough cycles now that its voice-to-text function should really know that I never mean poles. Also, I don’t say ducking a lot.