{"id":189,"date":"2008-10-15T21:34:16","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T20:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elementally.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/?p=189"},"modified":"2008-10-15T21:34:16","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T20:34:16","slug":"anitas-oranges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/anitas-oranges\/","title":{"rendered":"Anita&#8217;s oranges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a really, <em>really<\/em> simple tip about using your voice well when you&#8217;re public speaking or making presentations&#8230;. by hitting a word in a sentence with extra weight you give your audience a comparator &#8211; and that can change the meaning of your sentence quite a lot in terms of connotation.<\/p>\n<p>An example makes it clearer.  Take the simple, flat sentence &#8220;I gave Anita three oranges.&#8221;  Now try stressing different words in the sentence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I<\/strong> gave Anita three oranges: me, no one else, not you or him; just me&#8230;.<br \/>\nI <strong>gave<\/strong> Anita three oranges: I didn&#8217;t sell them to her, or loan her them&#8230;.<br \/>\nI gave <strong>Anita<\/strong> three oranges: not her sister or you or that guy over there&#8230;.<br \/>\nI gave Anita <strong>three<\/strong> oranges: not four or two &#8211; exactly three&#8230;<br \/>\nI gave Anita three <strong>oranges<\/strong>: I gave her oranges, not apples or bananas&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not hard to remember, but if you get it wrong and stress the wrong word, you&#8217;ll leave your audience very confused indeed.  They&#8217;ll probably be able to figure out what you mean, of course, but while they&#8217;re doing that they&#8217;re not concentrating on your next sentence.  Why make it hard on them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a really, really simple tip about using your voice well when you&#8217;re public speaking or making presentations&#8230;. by hitting a word in a sentence with extra weight you give your audience a comparator [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presentation-tips","category-voice-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}