#elocution

[regressioncurriculum]

My Elocution ABC: Ss

Practice saying this rhyme:

Soon, Sally! Soon, Sue! Soon Sly’s legs will splay askew!

[tomicscomics]

03/15/2024

The Enunciation.

JOKE-OGRAPHY: In this story, Jesus mentions to His followers that He's troubled by the fate He's about to endure, but instead of praying to be spared from that fate, He prays only that His Father uses it to glorify Himself.  Jesus is setting an example of ultimate humility and deference to God's plan.  God replies to Jesus, but His voice catches the crowd off-guard.  Was that really a voice in the clouds, or just thunder?  An angel, or a storm?  In this cartoon, one astute crowd-dweller asks whether they should be more afraid of a storm which threatens "elocution" (clear speech, like from an angel), or a storm which threatens "electrocution" (dangerous injury by electric shock, like from a lightning bolt).  Another even astuter crowd-dweller answers him quickly, saying that being murdered by nature's taser is way worse than well-enunciated words.

[redscharlach]

"Postures unfavourable to vocal delivery", from A System of Elocution (1846) by Andrew Comstock [x]

Alternatively, people who are having a good old reading sesh and don't care what pernickety authors think of them. A particular shout-out to Number 7, because she's definitely living her best life.

[thepradaenchilada]

O.J. Simpson, free at last

Actors who are also OJ sympathizers are my target audience.

[pitch-and-moan]

My Fair Raggy

Scooby Doo goes to speech therapy while the gang investigates the ghost of a flower seller haunting Covent Garden. It turns out the ghost is Scooby's speech therapist, who is also a crooked real estate developer, and whose grandson will go on to be Doctor Dolittle.

[noelcollection]

The art of public speaking goes beyond the mastery of the voice and includes the addition of expressive gestures to punctuate the speaker’s points. These illustrations, taken from a mid-nineteenth century manual, demonstrate the correct movement of a speaker’s arms. Although the author states that the arms are “little more than an agent for moving the hand,” he goes into great detail concerning proper, smooth movement. Rather than describing the phenomenon, it is presented using a universal coordinate system that is supplemented with illustrated examples.

Images from: Merrit Caldwell’s A practical manual of elocution… Portland: Sanborn and Carter, 1849.

Call number: PN4111 .C27 1849

Catalog record: https://bit.ly/2VRREks

[lumniated]

It is the yeast

and Juliet is the sun

[electronicsquid]

Taken out of context, this might be misconstrued

(Loomis Dean. 1948)