x We interrupt Perception Week to bring you this news bulletin: (Pretend you hear old fashioned news media typing here.) x FLASH: The Homeschool Post has just announced this year's Homeschool Blog Awards! x The Homeschool Post is a community of homeschooling parents and students. Once a year, they hold a contest to recognize and encourage blogs that are run by homeschoolers. I am honored and humbled to find that Art of Eloquence's own, Communication FUNdamentals, has been nominated and you'll probably laugh when you hear in what category: Funniest Homeschool Blog! There are many categories of blogs run by homeschool moms, dads and students (12 and over) who have varied interests. Some of the categories include: Best Nature Blog;...
It's Nostalgia Week here on Communication FUNdamentals. Art of Eloquence will be eight years old in just a few days. Looking back at how I started out, I began reminiscing about the "Good Old Days." Remember when manners were in style? When parents taught us that if we didn't have anything nice to say, we shouldn't say anything at all? Remember when saying "please" and "thank you" was not just nice, but customary? Remember when strangers were kind and we could...disagree in grace? 10 Quick Rules for Disagreeing in Grace By JoJo Tabares So how should we object? What's the best way to disagree? How can we voice our opposition when someone presents us with something that goes against what...
In November, Art of Eloquence will be eight years old! We've been having a great time with our visitors/customers with our birthday celebration and we've been giving away prizes! So far we gave away prizes for finding all eight FIMMs that are hiding throughout our site, for playing Communication BINGO over on our Facebook fan page, and we have tons of folks who have earned Birthday Bash Points toward our Grand Prize by either posting a link to any page of our site (and letting us know) or by purchasing any of our speech communication eProducts! But the Art of Eloquence Birthday Bash is coming to an end this month! There are only a few more weeks left to...
According to Merriam Webster:
irony, noun
Definition of IRONY
1: a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning —called also Socratic irony
2 a : the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning"
According to Friday Funnies:
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If you've been reading my blog for any length of time, you know that I have a lot of fun pictures, videos and articles to share here on Communication FUNadamentals. What you may not know, is that you can get even more free articles packed with communication tips as well as free gifts and exclusive offers if you subscribe to our What's New at Art of Eloquence eNewsletter! We give away free gifts and products, usually for, but not limited to, the major holidays. Two weeks ago, we gave away a free copy of my very first JoJoisms eBook on Communication to ALL of our newsletter subscribers--no strings attached! We also provide our Art of Eloquence newsletter subscribers with exclusive...
