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Chapter 109 what is a speech

When a business "sells" something, what does it do?Is it okay for a delivery driver to throw the shipping box in the warehouse yard?Does just handing out what you have mean the "sale" is complete?Do radio crews send messages directly to fixed people, and do all speakers do the same? Let's focus on how some people give speeches.Once, by chance, I went to Mürren, a summer resort in the Swiss Alps.I was staying at a hotel run by a British company and there were two lectures a week from the UK.At that time, there was a famous novelist, and the title of her speech was "The Future of Fiction".

She frankly said that the topic was not chosen by herself, so the length of the speech depended on how much she knew that it was worth talking about; Summary.So she just stood there, ignoring the presence of the audience, not even looking at them, looking now at the sky, now at the floor, and now at the script. Her erratic eyes and voice that seemed to come from far away made the already empty speech even more meaningless.This speech of hers is not a speech at all, but a monologue, because it lacks a kind of communication, which is an essential element of good speech.In other words, an excellent speech should make the audience feel a kind of physical and mental communication and communication with the speaker.

It must not be like the speech we mentioned just now, as if it came from an uninhabited, water-scarce and sandy Gobi desert, which seems so empty and boring, which makes people tired. In fact, speaking is a simple yet complex process that can be easily misunderstood and abused.
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