However, the opposite can also be true-An opponent can turn a positive statement into a bad one, if the speaker uses ambiguity ( intentionally or not ).

Around the same time, due to encouragement from influential speaker Themistocles, the Athenians also constructed the Long Walls connecting their city to the Piraeus, its port, making it effectively invulnerable to attack by land.

* No sound support aside from a command that could be used to click the speaker, though one could also an ASCII bell character to sound the system alert beep.

It also had a built in speaker which was compatible with such games software.

If the program is given to someone who speaks only English to execute the instructions of the program by hand, then in theory, the English speaker would also be able to carry on a conversation in written Chinese.

Egypt has also taken an active role regarding Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, such as its participation in the technical meeting of which it was the speaker for the Arab group.

The declaration also permits new concepts to be expressed as the speaker sees fit, but it recommends doing so in accordance with the original style.

At the first Esperanto congress, in Boulogne-sur-Mer in 1905, a declaration was made which defined an " Esperantist " merely as one who knows and uses the language " regardless of what kind of aims he uses it for ", and which also specifically declared any ideal beyond the spread of the language itself to be a private matter for the individual speaker.

Glossolalia also sometimes refers to xenoglossy, which is speaking in a natural language that was previously unknown to the speaker.

However, he also expressed a preference for prophecy over speaking in tongues, unless speaker in tongues interprets, so that the church may be edified ( 1 Cor 14: 5 ).

Paul also gave instructions that, unless there was an interpreter present, the speaker should " keep quiet in the church ", and speak only to himself and to God ( 1 Cor 14: 27-28 ).

Linguistic prescriptions also form part of the explanation for variation in speech, particularly variation in the speech of an individual speaker ( an explanation, for example, for why some people say, " I didn't do nothing "; some say, " I didn't do anything "; and some say one or the other depending on social context ).

He was also a public speaker, liturgist, singer and songwriter, and founded the Druidic organization Ár nDraíocht Féin, as well as the Neopagan civil rights group, the Aquarian Anti-Defamation League.

Goebbels also discovered a talent for oratory, and was soon second in the Nazi movement only to Hitler as a public speaker.

* Toespraak ( 1979 ) for speaker who also plays trombone

Viewed also as an aspect of speech, metaphor can serve as a device for persuading the listener or reader of the speaker or writer's argument or thesis, the so-called rhetorical metaphor.

" If, in turn, the speaker responds positively to the idea of giving to the poor, then some aspect of that idea must have inspired a positive response ; one could argue that that aspect is also the basis of its goodness.

In Eastern Christianity, where the title " Pope " is used also of the Bishop of Alexandria, the Bishop of Rome is often referred to as the " Pope of Rome ", regardless of whether the speaker or writer is in communion with Rome or not.

Isocrates believed that practice in speaking publicly about noble themes and important questions would function to improve the character of both speaker and audience while also offering the best service to a city.

He also blamed the international community for its failure to support the government, and said that the speaker of parliament would succeed him in office per the Charter of the Transitional Federal Government.

He also blamed the international community for its failure to support the government, and said that the speaker of parliament would succeed him in office per the Charter of the Transitional Federal Government.

The intelligibility of speech includes, besides the actual literal content, also speaker identity, emotions, intonation, timbre etc.

It also had a somewhat better speaker that did not get distorted as much when played loudly.

Fiammetta's tale ( she is the speaker in this story, contrary to what a couple of incorrect sources may say ) is also told about the legendary Hatim Tai, who lived in the 6th century and sacrificed his favorite horse to provide a meal for the ambassador of the Greek Emperor.

Such studies include mostly medical analysis of the voice i. e. phoniatrics, but also speaker identification.

The first speaker was Amos C. Barstow who had been unanimously chosen president of the meeting.

With this seven-word sentence -- though the speaker undoubtedly thought he was dealing only with the subject of food -- he was telling things about himself and, in the last two examples, revealing that he had departed from the customs of his culture.

By the 27th century BC Egyptian writing had a set of some 24 hieroglyphs which are called uniliterals, to represent syllables that begin with a single consonant of their language, plus a vowel ( or no vowel ) to be supplied by the native speaker.

Kroeber had come into contact with Ishi, the last native speaker of the Yahi language, closely related to Yana, and needed someone to document the language urgently.

Sam Batwi, the speaker of Yana who had worked with Sapir, was unable to understand the Yahi variety, and Krober was convinced that only Sapir would be able to communicate with Ishi.

However, literary conventions that we take for granted today had not yet been inventedthere was no spacing between words, no consistency in punctuation nor in vowel elisions, no marks for breathings and accent ( guides to pronunciation and hence word recognition ), no convention to denote change of speaker and no stage directions, and verse was written straight across the page like prose.

During Thatcher's only visit to the Conservative Research Department in the summer of 1975, a speaker had prepared a paper on why the " middle way " was the pragmatic path the Conservative Party should take, avoiding the extremes of left and right.

Early in 1960, Kelly, an ardent Francophile and fluent French speaker, was invited by A. M. Julien, the general administrator of the Paris Opéra and Opéra-Comique, to select his own material and create a modern ballet for the company, the first time an American had received such an assignment.

In the Virginia ratifying convention, Madison, who was a terrible public speaker, had to go up against Henry, who was the finest orator in the country.

For his part, Scotty had resigned as parliamentary speaker in April 2004 in protest of the Nauru's financial crisis which included the commencement of receivership proceedings by corporate giant, General Electric.

Though the term had a wide range of application ( as a memory technique or compositional exercise, for example ) it most often referred to the " seats of argument "— the list of categories of thought or modes of reasoning — that a speaker could use in order to generate arguments or proofs.

As an anthologist and speaker Merril with other authors had been advocating a reestablishment of sf within the literary mainstream and higher literary standards before.

* Audio: 3 square wave generators, 1 noise generator, the system has a mono speaker, but stereo sound can be had via headphone output

Marshall was well suited for the job, as he had been earning extra money as a public speaker while vice president, and gladly accepted the responsibility.

" I built special speaker columns on the hills and had 16 loudspeaker arrays in a square platform going up to the hill on 70-foot meter towers.

The ZX Spectrum 128 had no internal speaker like its predecessors.

His speeches impressed many ; even some of his opponents later conceded that Bryan was the most compelling speaker they had ever heard.

This would be impossible, or at least it would be an improbable case, if in such a case the hearer had no chance of figuring out what the speaker means ( over and above what she says and means ).

Shane Rattenbury was elected the speaker of the assembly, the first time a Green party member had held such a position in any parliament or assembly in Australia.

He was not a fluent speaker and had a loud laugh which convulsed his whole frame.

The model had sixteen components that can be applied to many sorts of discourse: message form ; message content ; setting ; scene ; speaker / sender ; addressor ; hearer / receiver / audience ; addressee ; purposes ( outcomes ); purposes ( goals ); key ; channels ; forms of speech ; norms of interaction ; norms of interpretation ; and genres.

His maternal grandfather, James Stanihurst, had been speaker of the Irish parliament, and his father Arnold Ussher was a clerk in chancery who married Margaret Stanihurst.

He had been an eloquent speaker, a learned lawyer, a generous friend ; and his interest in education led him to make several gifts and bequests for educational purposes, including the foundation of a free grammar school at Redgrave.