Some people correct your grammar behind your back. They are cowards looking for some petty humor at your expense. Toastmasters on the other hand are courageous folks – not just because we can stand on a stage, hold a mike and give a talk but ...
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A Grammarian script on not being unintentionally funny
It’s good idea to deliver a humorous speech. It sets the tone, warms up the audience and makes them like you – that’s if it’s intentionally done. However, unintentional humor may do more harm ...
A Grammarian script with the perfect reasoning
Every grammatical error you make increases the odds of your audience misunderstanding your message or misdirecting their focus or worse misjudging the intent of your entire speech. That’s three misses in your speech ...
A short delightful Grammarian script
In the real world, someone constantly correcting your grammar can be a pain in the posterior. In Toastmasters they are a delight. So I chose to delight you today. As the Grammarian for ...
A Grammarian script for the big times
Imagine you had to deliver the most important talk of your life - a TED talk or perhaps a start up pitch to investors or may be raise a Toast to an audience of all your extended family members who have been judging you since your childhood. Would you want to ...
A Grammarian script with a wonderful example
People are misunderstood all the time – sometimes because of what people hear and other times because of how you say it. What others hear is not under our control but how we say things definitely is. With wrong tongue movements, “I abhor you” could very well sound like “I bore you” but have wildly different ...
A cheeky script for the role of Grammarian
Some people silently correct your grammar. Every time you make an error, it quietly sets their auto correct in motion. Not here in Toastmasters. In Toastmasters, we are very vocal about it. We will ...
A practical script for the role of Grammarian
There are two ways to improve your grammar and language skills. One is to hire a tutor who would teach you the rules, give worn out examples and hypothetical situations that you will never face. The second way is to actually talk in the language as you would in usual circumstances, using ...
A Grammarian script on new vocabulary
Every time the world is swept by a new phenomenon, a whole series of new words related to the phenomena enters the common man’s dictionary. Take COVID 19 for example. We have learnt new words like pandemic, quarantine, inoculate and many others. Now that is a fairly slow ...
A Grammarian script that generates strong visuals
Bad grammar is a lot like bad smell. If a person emitted bad smell from his body, that’s the first thing anybody standing next to him would notice. Similarly, if a person spoke in bad grammar, that’s ...
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