{"id":4235,"date":"2022-09-01T21:21:54","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T09:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/?p=4235"},"modified":"2022-09-27T21:36:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T08:36:48","slug":"the-gift-of-the-gab-david-crystal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2022\/09\/01\/the-gift-of-the-gab-david-crystal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gift of the Gab \u2013 David Crystal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"694\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-gift-of-the-gab-1-694x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-gift-of-the-gab-1-694x1024.jpg 694w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-gift-of-the-gab-1-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-gift-of-the-gab-1-768x1133.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-gift-of-the-gab-1-1041x1536.jpg 1041w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-gift-of-the-gab-1-1388x2048.jpg 1388w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-gift-of-the-gab-1-102x150.jpg 102w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-gift-of-the-gab-1-1200x1771.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-gift-of-the-gab-1-scaled.jpg 1735w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 694px) 100vw, 694px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a pretty good guide to effective public speaking \u2013 its centrepiece is a very detailed analysis of Barack Obama\u2019s \u201cYes We Can\u201d speech from 2008. Actually I didn\u2019t like it as much as I thought I would \u2013 somehow I was expecting something less prosaic from the author of <em>The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language<\/em>, \u201cthe most exciting, readable and comprehensive book on language ever written\u201d. Still, this book does have lots of good advice and some useful tips if you are giving speeches or making presentations. But if you\u2019re not, maybe just dip into <em>The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language<\/em> instead.<\/p>\n<!-- wpsso rrssb get buttons: buttons on archive option not enabled -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a pretty good guide to effective public speaking \u2013 its centrepiece is a very detailed analysis of Barack Obama\u2019s \u201cYes We Can\u201d speech from 2008. Actually I didn\u2019t like it as much as I thought I would \u2013 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2022\/09\/01\/the-gift-of-the-gab-david-crystal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,219,38],"class_list":["post-4235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-books","tag-david-crystal","tag-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4238,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235\/revisions\/4238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}