Comments on: Are you wasteful with words? http://www.craigstrachan.com/blog/2008/07/are-you-wasteful-with-words.html www.craigstrachan.com/blog - Keep talking! Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:52:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Michael Cortes http://www.craigstrachan.com/blog/2008/07/are-you-wasteful-with-words.html/comment-page-1#comment-46 Michael Cortes Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:20:13 +0000 http://www.craigstrachan.com/blog/2008/07/are-you-wasteful-with-words.html#comment-46 I believe society and the professional world has been teaching this manner of speaking for a while. If you will consider, businesses in the decades since radio and television have emerged, have been faced with "live mics" when ever a possible problem arose. In that spur of the moment, they had to answer. Often times without enough facts to give an accurate answer. I believe this is where the purposeful use of these superfluous and meaningless words developed. As a speaker, you are aware of these words. You keep an eye on your objective and eliminate words that don't contribute to it. You define your message and then ensure you are presenting it in the most memorable and powerful manner. Yet others disguise the lack of message with an overabundance of meaningless words, like a recon marine in a hostile jungle. You can't be sure what it is, or where it is, but hopefully you will give them the benefit of the doubt. "There must be a valid answer in there somewhere." I believe society and the professional world has been teaching this manner of speaking for a while. If you will consider, businesses in the decades since radio and television have emerged, have been faced with “live mics” when ever a possible problem arose. In that spur of the moment, they had to answer. Often times without enough facts to give an accurate answer.

I believe this is where the purposeful use of these superfluous and meaningless words developed.

As a speaker, you are aware of these words. You keep an eye on your objective and eliminate words that don’t contribute to it. You define your message and then ensure you are presenting it in the most memorable and powerful manner.

Yet others disguise the lack of message with an overabundance of meaningless words, like a recon marine in a hostile jungle. You can’t be sure what it is, or where it is, but hopefully you will give them the benefit of the doubt. “There must be a valid answer in there somewhere.”

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