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To: Gauguin who wrote (34891)	8/13/1999 7:43:00 PM
From: PCModem	Read Replies (1) of 71178

"I "guess," this is what was taught as Oration. (I don't know.) But it was like listening to glass, a clear stream, something physical, as opposed to.....vaporous." You refer to the twin disciplines of Elocution and Rhetoric. Lots arts in today's world. Pronunciation (elocution) has been sacrificed to the gods of dialects and accents. Figures of speech (Rhetoric) have been sacrificed to the god of legal precision. English is the greatest language on the planet because of its richness, a quality impossible without including everything you and I deplore. Isn't it odd that such precise and beautiful English as you describe is an artificial construct, an acquired skill, something you'd never find on any street in any English city? The exotic is always more attractive than the mundane. PCM

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