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Need Some Grace Talk Chicken Noodle Soup

What is wrong with THIS picture?! This has not been a good week for me or for my Grace Talk Soup co host!  She has had some family emergencies and will not be able to make the show today.  Please keep her and her family in your prayers. I've had a cold for over a week now.  Just the old sore throat and stuffy nose thing.  Nothing to write blog about.  I thought it was going away til the other day when I got hit hard with, I don't know WHAT.  I don't feel like I have the flu because I don't really have any body aches or fever.  But BOY HOWDY do I feel awful!  I kind of feel...

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Win some free advertising for your business/ministry on Grace Talk Soup!

Would you like some help promoting your business, mission, blog, website or cause?  Help us promote Grace Talk Soup and win some free air time advertising on the show!  Post our link to your newsletter, website, Yahoo groups, Facebook account, Twitter account or blog and then email us gts@artofeloquence.com to tell us where you did!  The one who promotes us the most that week will have his/her blog link, site URL, business or cause mentioned on the show! Don’t know what to post? Cut and paste this in! Tune in to the Grace Talk Soup Weekly Podcast featuring Lucy Linguist & Ethel the Editor, starring in “I LOVE LANGUAGE!” each Thursday morning 8am PST/11am EST where these two crazy compadres...

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Mirror, Mirror on My Words

Mirror, mirror on my words which reflect upon my heart. Interpretation others find whether I choose wisely or do not! Americans understand that we have the right to free speech, but what we often fail to understand is that our communication has consequences.  What we say affects people either negatively or positively.  What we say may be interpreted the way we intended or in a way we never even anticipated. Some of the things we say are of little consequence, but much of what we say may have dire consequences if we are not properly understood.  If we misspeak and everyone comes to our dinner party a day early while we are in our PJ's, it could only be embarrassing. ...

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Foot in Mouth Marketing

Do you ever wonder if FIMM has infiltrated the marketing world?  Have you noticed recently how many newsletters, sales ads, cable TV commercials and products have gone out without benefit of a good editor? There's a funny that's been making the internet rounds for years which shows you the power of the human mind to grasp the meaning of the written word even though certain letters are missing. "Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae...

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