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For me, it's a cause of some upset that more anglophones don't enjoy language.

Music is enjoyable, it seems,

so are dance and other athletic forms of movement.

People seem to be able to find sensual and sensuous pleasure in almost anything but words these days.

Words, it seems, belong to other people.

Anyone who expresses themselves with originality,

delight and verbal freshness is more likely to be mocked,

distrusted or disliked than welcomed.

The free and happy use of words appears to be considered elitist or pretentious.

Sadly, desperately sadly,

the only people who seem to bother with language in public today bother with it in quite the wrong way.

They write letters to broadcasters and newspapers in which they are rude and haughty about other people's usage,

and in which they show off their own superior knowledge of how language should be.

I hate that, and I particularly hate the fact that so many of these pedants assume that I'm on their side.

When asked to join in a let's persuade this supermarket chain to get rid of their five items or less sign,

I never join in.

Yes, I am aware of the technical distinction between less

and fewer and between uninterested and disinterested and infer and imply

and all the rest of them but none of these are of importance to me.

None of these are of importance, I said there.

You'll notice the old pedantic me would have insisted on none of them is of importance.

Well, I'm glad to say I've outgrown that silly approach to language.

Oscar Wilde, and there have been few greater and more complete lords of language in the past thousand years,

once included with a manuscript he was delivering to his publishers a compliment slip,

in which he had scribbled the injunction,

I'll leave you to tidy up the woulds and shoulds,

wills and shalls, that's and which's,

etc. Which gives us all encouragement to feel less guilty, don't you think?

There are all kinds of pedants around,

with more time to read and imitate Lynn Truss and John Humphreys than to write poems,

love letters, novels and stories, it seems.

They whip out their sharpies and take away and add apostrophes from public signs,

shake their heads at prepositions which end sentences and mutter at split infinitives and misspellings,

But do they bubble and froth and slobber and cream with joy at language?

Do they ever let the tripping of the tips of their

tongues against the tops of their teeth transport them to giddy, euphoric bliss?

Do they ever yoke impossible words together for the sound sex of it?

Do they use language to seduce,

charm, excite, please, affirm, and tickle those they talk to?

Do they?

I doubt it.

Their two farting busy sneering at a greengrocer's less than perfect use of the apostrophe.

Well, sod them to Hades.

They think they're guardians of language.

They're no more guardians of language than the kennel club is the guardian of dog kind.

And the worst of this sorry bunch of semi-educated losers are

those who seem to glory in being irritated by nouns becoming verbs.

How dense and deft a language development do you have to be?

If you don't like nouns becoming verbs,

then for heaven's sake avoid Shakespeare,

who made a doing word out of a thing word every chance he got.

He tabled the motion and chaired the meeting in which nouns were made verbs.

I suppose new examples from our time might take some getting used to.

He actioned it that day,

for instance, strike some as a verbing too far,

but we've been sanctioning, envisioning,

propositioning, and stationing for a long time, so why not actioning?

Because it's ugly, whinge the pedants.

Well, it's only ugly because it's new and you don't like it.

Ugly in the way Picasso,

Stravinsky, and Eliot were once thought ugly,

and before them Monet, Mahler, and Baudelaire.

Pedants will also claim, with what I'm sure is eye-popping insincerity and shameless disingenuousness,

that their fight is only for clarity.

Well, this is all very well,

but there's no doubt what,

for example, five items or less means.

Just as only adult can't tell from the context

and from the age

and education of the speaker whether disinterested is used in the proper sense of non-partisan or in the improper sense of uninterested.

No, the claim to be defending language for the sake of

clarity almost never ever holds water nor does the idea

that following grammatical rules in language demonstrates clarity of thought and intelligence of mind.

Having said this, I admit that if you want to communicate well for the sake of passing an exam or job interview,

then it's obvious that wildly original and excessively heterodox language could land you in the soup.

I think what offends examiners and employers when confronted with extremely informal,

unpunctuated and haywire language is the implication of not caring that underlies it.

You slip into a suit for an interview and you dress your language up too.

You can wear what you like linguistically or sartorily when you're at home or with friends,

but most people accept the need to smarten up under some circumstances.

It's only considerate.

But that's an issue of fitness, of suitability.

It has nothing to do with correctness.

There's no right language or wrong language any more than there are right or wrong clothes.

Context, convention and circumstance are all.

I can't deny that a small part of me still clings to a ghastly Radio 4 newspaper letter-writer pedantry,

but I fight against it.

In much the same way,

I try to fight against my gluttony,

anger, selfishness, and other vices.

I must confess, for example,

that I find it hard not to wince when someone aspirates the word,

and it is a word, H-A-I-T-C-H.

Thank you.

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為什麼要通過這個影片練習口語？

觀看這段斯蒂芬·弗萊的演講影片，不僅能夠提升你對英語的理解，還能夠為你提供一個絕佳的雅思口語練習機會。在影片中，弗萊以其獨特的風格和生動的表達方式吸引觀眾，這對於學習者來說，能夠幫助你感受到語言的魅力和節奏。通過模仿其語調和表達，你可以提高你的發音技巧，增強你的口語流利度，進而在日常交流中自信地使用英語。此外，通過“shadow speech”技巧的練習，學習者可以更好地掌握對話的節奏和語氣，進而提高溝通能力。

語法與表達的語境

使用“none of them are of importance”表達否定：這個結構可以幫助你在談論不重要的事情時更清晰地表達觀點。
使用“Do they ever...”的反問句：這樣的句式能加強你的質疑語氣，同時也能仿效弗萊引導觀眾思考的方式。
提到“with originality, delight and verbal freshness”來強調創造性：在口語交流中，運用生動的形容詞可以讓你的表達更加引人注目。
“I'll leave you to tidy up the woulds and shoulds”表示委婉的請求：這樣的表達能夠讓你的口語更加禮貌和含蓄。

常見發音陷阱

在這段影片中，弗萊的快速說話和豐富的詞彙可能會給學習者帶來一些發音挑戰。首先，單詞“importance”的重音可能會讓人感到困惑，你需要練習如何準確強調每個音節。其次，像“seduce”和“delight”這些詞的發音也值得注意，因為它們在快節奏的對話中容易被吞音。建議學習者在練習時多關注這些難度較大的單詞，並結合“shadowspeak”練習，以確保能夠自如地表達。此外，提升你的發音技巧能夠顯著提高你的交際自信，特別是在雅思口語部分。

影片中的語法

說話人最常用的結構，並附上影片中的原話：

結構	影片中的用法
被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的	be mocked · be considered · being irritated
定語從句 who / which + 從句 — 補充說明人或事物	Anyone who expresses · people who seem · those who seem

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