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Diction Books
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Speak with Power and Confidence: Tested Ideas for Becoming a More Powerful Communicator (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.63 — 109 ratings — published 2009
L'EXPRECOM: Méthode de diction, d'expression et de communication (French Edition)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Lessons in Elocution and Drill Book, for Practice of the Principles of Vocal Physiology, and for Acquiring the Art of Elocution and Oratory .. (Paperback)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Dinesh New Millennium Physics Class XI Vol. I & II (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 173 ratings — published
Söz Söyleme ve Diksiyon Sanatı (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.00 — 4 ratings — published
Diksi dan Gaya Bahasa (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 358 ratings — published 1970
Clear Speech (Performance Books)
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avg rating 3.30 — 10 ratings — published 1977
...And I Worked at the Writer's Trade: Chapters of Literary History 1918-1978 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 20 ratings — published 1978
Merriam-Webster's Vocabulary Builder, Kindle Edition (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.47 — 724 ratings — published 1994
Gone Girl (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 3,457,236 ratings — published 2012
Dolores Claiborne (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.95 — 171,194 ratings — published 1992
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 8,603 ratings — published 1992
Al-Mawrid: A Modern Arabic-English Dictionary (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 18 ratings — published 1999
Death Sentences: How Cliches, Weasel Words and Management-Speak Are Strangling Public Language (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.60 — 499 ratings — published 2003
Building Great Sentences: Exploring the Writer's Craft -(The Great Courses)
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avg rating 3.82 — 159 ratings — published
The Flowers Lied (The Freak Scene Dream Trilogy)
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avg rating 3.73 — 11 ratings — published
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 2,845,704 ratings — published 1937
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 826,628 ratings — published 1990
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 87,208 ratings — published 1918
Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words: A Writer's Guide to Getting It Right (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 3,237 ratings — published 1984
The Art of the Novel (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 7,361 ratings — published 1960
The Times Literary Supplement (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 5.00 — 3 ratings — published
Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 2,358 ratings — published 1999
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 44,288 ratings — published 1990
Let's Talk Turkey: The Stories Behind America's Favorite Expressions (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.52 — 21 ratings — published 2008
Making Out in Chinese: Revised Edition (Mandarin Chinese Phrasebook) (Making Out Books)
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avg rating 3.69 — 35 ratings — published 1993
They Have a Word for It: A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words & Phrases (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 318 ratings — published 1988
“This unfortunate phenomenon happened throughout the professor’s career—the students, who could not bear natural interest in the lectures, profited off O’Hare’s passion. They rested their fangs on her neck and used her original elixir for their needs. If they did it unconsciously, then another phenomenon would occur. The students imitated their teachers. And it was the largest robbery of education.
By using the vocabulary of their passionate elders, young, ambitious minds convinced themselves and the world of something they did not believe in. Articulation was so personal. It was the result of countless experiences, people, readings, and reflections. When expressing an authentic belief, some ears were fooled by the speaker’s passion, which was like a contagious trance. So those ears applied others’ articulation as their own. By seeing O’Hare speak enthusiastically about a topic, one, with enough attention, could easily think they loved the topic, too.”
― A Happy Ghost
By using the vocabulary of their passionate elders, young, ambitious minds convinced themselves and the world of something they did not believe in. Articulation was so personal. It was the result of countless experiences, people, readings, and reflections. When expressing an authentic belief, some ears were fooled by the speaker’s passion, which was like a contagious trance. So those ears applied others’ articulation as their own. By seeing O’Hare speak enthusiastically about a topic, one, with enough attention, could easily think they loved the topic, too.”
― A Happy Ghost
“The parts of our bodies we share with another person are called ‘private,’ while the ones we keep entirely to ourselves remain unlabeled; perhaps those are the truly private parts, and the so-called ‘private parts’ should instead be called ‘sharable parts’; English, it seems, delights in contradiction.”
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