Speaking with authority
Thanks to Kate for bringing this wonderful video to my attention.
Poet Taylor Mali demonstrates the problems with run-on sentences, up-speak and the “tragically cool and totally hip interrogative tone” which signals uncertainty to an audience. What has happened, Mali asks, to our sense of conviction and ability to speak to authority:
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