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The Voice and Diction of Conversation - part
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Many other things could be said about the voice in good conversation. It is a truism that the voice can be more beautiful than an organ. While a rich beautiful voice is in part a natural gift, endowing its possessor with a great conversational advantage, it is true, too, that every voice, even the humblest, can be improved. The hints in this chapter will, if heeded, make any voice seem more beautiful. As a final hint, a most practical one, we say: "This above all," try ever and always to let your voice mirror your meaning and feelings honestly and sincerely. If you do this, and if your thoughts are worthy, and your feelings noble, you cannot go wrong with your voice.
If you are really sorry that Mary was sick, then your voice in saying it
should have quite different and richer overtones than when you say, "I am
sorry you missed the bus yesterday."A famous preacher was asked what he said to mothers about their babies that made each think he paid it a special compliment. He answered, "I look at the baby admiringly and then exclaim, 'Well, this is a baby.' " It was the emotion in his voice and the tempo of his words that were the compliment. A person who cannot get any emotional "umph" into his voice when a topic that ought to stir the feelings is broached is not a good conversationalist, and very probably he is not a very sympathetic, charitable, or neighborly person cither. He had better get into a spiritual retreat and work for those humane traits and for that charity without which St. Paul tells us our words are as tinkling cymbals and sounding brass.
A good conversationalist puts into his voice not merely what he means, but what and how much he feels. His voice never just rattles words, but always reflects the significance and the emotional impact. If one tries to do that — it really amounts to little more than being truly thoughtful and sincere — then the voice will of its own nature become more and more agreeable and effective. Nature seldom gives a harsh voice to a truly kind and sympathetic person. Even an aged voice, coming from a truly kind and sympathetic person, can be pleasant. Though Shakespeare speaks of an old man's "big manly voice, turning again toward childish treble," piping and whistling, old people who are more concerned with pleasing others than themselves, who are selfless and sincere, seldom have voices one is not glad to hear.
In voice and diction, as in many other things, nature tends to supply or to supplement what one intelligently needs and tries to use. If a person thinks clearly and honestly, feels sincerely and justly, and then tries to convey this to his fellow men for their good and their amusement, he will hardly talk too low or too loud, drawl monotonously or rattle disconnectedly. If he prizes both his ideas and his fellow men, nature will help him with enough voice and diction to bring his ideas and his neighbors together — forcefully and pleasantly.
Related terms include how to speak irish and good speaking.
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