All this week I've been talking about cluttered communication and how we need to simplify, clear out the unnecessary words and slow down our rate of speech. Today I'd like to share a fun YouTube video of a Federal Express Commercial that illustrates how effective fast talkers can be!
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On Monday, I talked about decluttering your communication by taking out the unnecessary words and phrases. Today I'd like to talk about Cluttered Communication or Cluttered Speech. While searching the web last week, I found an article about cluttered speech on a website devoted primarily to stammering. The article talks mostly about the author's experience with both stammering and cluttering which had made it even more difficult for him to hold a conversation with people. The side bar defined cluttering: "What is cluttering? Cluttering is defined as a communication disorder characterised by a rapid rate of speech that may come out too fast without proper pronunciation and be somewhat erratic. Cluttered thoughts can make it difficult to express yourself clearly....
As long as we are destroying word illusions this week with Toxic Words on Monday and the meaning of peruse on Wednesday, I thought we'd tackle something else that has been a pet peeve of mine for quite a while. You've probably seen that familiar paragraph attributed to Cambridge University that says that as long as you keep the first and last letters of words in the correct places, you can switch around the letters and still read the paragraph. Here's a screen shot: Well, there is more to it than it first appears. Check out this YouTube video of the Brother's Winn from What You Ought to Know: Now that they have burst your bubble on this little parlor trick, I'd like...
This week's word is: Peruse and it may not mean what you think it does. I was surfing the net last week and found a few articles on the meaning of this word which suggested that it doesn't mean what most poeple think it does. Most people use the term to mean glancing through something quickly without paying much attention to detail, but according these articles and to Dictionary.com, peruse means "to read with thoroughness or care, examine in detail." x I decided to look it up and what I found both confused and explained the issue. Here's what I mean. Merriam Webster defines peruse as: "1a: to examine or consider with attention and in detail : study b: to look...
Phones have changed a great deal over the years. I found some fun videos that give us a little insight as to the various major changes that have taken place in our telephone history. Here is a 5 minute documenary on the introduction of women as switchboard operators. It's amazing what training these women had and the strict rules they had to observe while working for the telephone company. I thought I had it bad when I worked in customer service and was tied to the phone except for a half hour lunch and two ten-minute scheduled potty breaks! Not sure this is true, but I found one video that said, "As dial telephones were introduced - replacing operator service - instructions were shown...
