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The Voice and Diction of Conversation - part
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The whole world sympathizes with a stammerer. And when no one is looking the world probably laughs at his painful antics in innocent revenge for the agony he has caused it. That the Lord, who had ready to hand a teeming range of trials for mankind, should also have found time to invent stammering for a multiplication of man's vicissitudes passes beyond our limited understanding. But there it is, and we cannot help it. However, that anyone not so afflicted should willingly aggravate man's unhappy lot by prefacing his words with a series of a-a-ah-s can only be a tribute to original sin! Anyone who has this terrifying habit, who delays his words, as if he were stammering, by drawling or grunting, should absent himself from society awhile until this speech atrocity is corrected. It ought to be a law of charity that friends must tell a friend who has this fault. It is, sad to say, an affliction as frequent in brilliant and educated people, such as teachers, as it is in lathe operators. I do not know how it can be corrected. But I suggest that the afflicted one absolutely refrain from starting his words until he is ready to push them out in full without any barnacles. If he cannot manage an unbarnacled word and a weighty thought at one and the same time, then he should refrain from weighty thoughts. One simply cannot have a graceful society in the same room with someone who sits there a-a-ah-ing his words 1
Another voice matter which everybody notices except the one speaking is force or loudness, and the lack of it. The discomfort the human race endures from people who talk so low that one must strain to hear them is extensive. It is as much a sin in a conversationalist as in a public speaker. An elocution book says, "Every effort to understand the word detracts from the thought." Loudness, of course, is relative. It has to be adjusted to the group and the place. Too much or too little is equally bad. A good conversationalist, truly considerate of his hearers, will talk just loud enough for everyone in his circle to hear easily, and for everyone outside it not to be forced to hear him.
If in a general conversation of more than six persons, one person starts talking so low that only the two next to him can hear, he can quickly ruin the general conversation, and force it to disintegrate into twosomes and threesomes. A general unified conversation of many participants is talk at its most cultivated and stimulating level. This should be every hostess's aim and guest's hope. As long as it is on this level, one for all people in the room, you should be especially careful to talk loud enough for everyone in the room or circle to hear easily. You should not be the one who causes it to dissolve into smaller groups. This is true, too, at a dinner table. While the conversation embraces the whole table, a person should take care to have his voice reach everyone. On the other hand, once the talk has broken into several sectors, then he must moderate his voice so as to reach only the reduced circle. It should not impose itself on those outside it. Properly, it is the privilege of the host or hostess, by an elevated voice, to draw several circles together again into a larger one.
The boorishness of a loud voice out of place is a byword. The whole world mocks, and fears, a person who in restaurants, lobbies, or trains, on ship, sidewalk, or job talks to his crony or his set with such force that he seems to be addressing everyone in the place. The person who does not adjust his voice to his circle is a boor.
Related terms include dictionary speak and easy speaking.
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