It's all about tone

a brief consideration of tone

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[TheMeltingSnowman]

Nice vid.

Maybe you could do a video with a small text and say it over in all different 'tones' to show the example of how the same thing can be construed in many different ways. Reminds me of the experiment of a sentence with no punctuation."woman without her man is nothing". men punc. like this "woman, without her man, is nothing." women like thus "woman. without her, man is nothing"

[mk2passat]

how long til the book is in the shops?

[jacksawild]

@TheMeltingSnowman John, where Dave had had 'had had', had had 'had'; 'had had' had had the examiner's approval.

This used to be given with no punctuation as an exercise to us mere students. Eleven 'hads' all in a row and I still remember the bloody thing.

[Roblynmaz]

You were having a bad day, but you seem to be a very passionate man. When you feel something, you feel it deeply. Don't apologize for showing it. I think the tone showed how you were feeling. Poverty is obviously an incredibly frustrating thing for you. You have every right to show it.

[sarah1ooo1]

Why censor emotions. Why is it not ok to be angry ? If nobody vented we would explode and thats worse...people get hurt by being repressed in this way. Why do we apologise for being angry about something...its a normal natural part of being human.Psychotic britain = repressed anger...Tada !

[burningmars]

Even in a less toned speech, arguments can be used to provoke emotions in opponents to bring them temparorily closer to the speaker's ideas. Here tone would act as a catalyst for the speaker's ideas.

[burningmars]

This alone proves that tone can be used to bring out emotions from vulnerable listeners (like the youth). This aids to prevent critical thinking for both opponents and supporters of the speaker's ideas, and so avoid or delay refutations(especially in a debate), and nurture the confirmation bias of supporters. This is exploited by both religious and poiltical leaders (eg. Hitler's speeches). Tone is not necessary if the delivery is rational, and those who can see through emotions prefer that way.

[NukeFascistAmerica]

Galloway's anger and shoutiness make him sound more passionate than Chomsky. You get the feeling that if there were ever a revolution, Galloway would be in the trenches with you, motivating everybody and willing to die for his beliefs. I don't see that in Chomsky. It's a good thing Galloway is on the left, I'd hate to think how somebody with his charisma could rally the right-wing.

[StevenJMUK]

Tone is indeed important. If you look at George Galloway and Noam Chomsky, they actually say many of the same things. However, Chomsky comes across much more credibly because he doesn't get all angry and shouty like Galloway.

[truthseekers666]

Do you want your sheep dropping warmed up sir or would you want them pushed up your nostril cold. Hehe.

[TheMeltingSnowman]

Why thank you.Thumbs up to you too.

[cheekychen]

nice suggestion and example. I rate your comment 5*