Dear Blog,
Wrote some stuff while at lecture yesterday.
Today's topic: The Speech
Ok... now... there's this lecturer standing in front of a few hundred people, teaching them the foundation of behaviour. She gets kind of disturbed when there are people talking among themselves. I'm sure there's no need to communicate during lectures, but each "quiet... quiet..." wastes nearly 5 seconds, which could be multiplied by the numerous times she does that, equals the time which she can reflect upon how she can use a better speech pattern to make her point understood. Well, i think i am being selfish here because i speak Singlish. No doubt all these students around me woud understand her better than me, but still i make my point on not understanding the first two sentences she said.
Thus, we come to the point whereby the location comes into play. I am in Melbourne, where people speak with an accent that is so strong that probably only a Hokkien-speaking uncle can challenge. Speaking of which, i wonder what's happening in the office now that there's no sergeant around. Albert and Zico would be spewing Hokkein vulgarities at the others and the speech they use is often very distasteful. Despite all that, i admit i'm tryin got learn from them because i want to be accepted. This concludes that in order to be accepted, the Speech of the majority must be adopted(how shallow...), and thus explains why some chinese return back home speaking English like a potato/banana.
Perhaps it is due to the inactiveness of my mind, that i'm having difficulties trying to understand what she's trying to say. Each word requires a processing time of one to two seconds, depending on the various factors such as the strength of the accent, the length of the word and most importantly how the spoken word clicks witht the 'word library' in the brain. Thus sentences like "If i... play... understooded, however the... probably... instruction... what you would do..." That explains the blanks... And the problem is when you try to think back on the sentence, it becomes incoherent, and while thinking of it, you miss the next sentence she says. At the end of the lecture, what you learnt is perhaps what was flashed on the screen and how hard it is to understand Australian English when are brought up saying 'lahs' and 'lors'. Lord help me.
The way she speaks, each word comes out a different strength, then similar words but spoken with different strength due to the pattern of the speech comes out different. Complicated? Not really. For example the word 'should', if it is spoken firmly, a firm 'SHOULD' will come out, nice and fine. But if the previous few words came out strong, and the next word is 'should', in addition that there is no emphasis on the word, what comes out is usually "sho..." , and you spend another 2 seconds trying to debate whether she is saying 'should' or 'shit'.
I'm not trying to be funny, but it gets quite comical when you are in a humourous mood. Is speech going to be part of examinations? Because the people sitting in the lecture hall amaze me. Indeed, looks can be deceiving, and what or who is truly great is by what he has in his brains. If someone speaks very coarsely, but has the capability to ace his examinations, he's going to graduate as well. So speech isn't exactly a good determinant for how smart that person is, but it does portray how effective he is able to bring across his point. At this point of time, i'm sure i show quite clearly i am not very effective in bringing my point across, or rather, everything is kind of jumble up here and there, but i am writing as though i am saying, so do pardon me, because my speech ain't too good either.
So maybe i shouldn't comment on the lecturer in front of me, and instead, spend this 30 minutes to try my best to listen to the lecture. So contradicting right, but at least i did some reflection, and i can say i am wiser now in terms of speech than half an hour ago.
"Thoughts for managers:
-To be positive and a good role model." (<----Don't i know this already??)
So what did i learn this lecture???
N.O.T.H.I.N.G.
Yours,
Lah
Wrote some stuff while at lecture yesterday.
Today's topic: The Speech
Ok... now... there's this lecturer standing in front of a few hundred people, teaching them the foundation of behaviour. She gets kind of disturbed when there are people talking among themselves. I'm sure there's no need to communicate during lectures, but each "quiet... quiet..." wastes nearly 5 seconds, which could be multiplied by the numerous times she does that, equals the time which she can reflect upon how she can use a better speech pattern to make her point understood. Well, i think i am being selfish here because i speak Singlish. No doubt all these students around me woud understand her better than me, but still i make my point on not understanding the first two sentences she said.
Thus, we come to the point whereby the location comes into play. I am in Melbourne, where people speak with an accent that is so strong that probably only a Hokkien-speaking uncle can challenge. Speaking of which, i wonder what's happening in the office now that there's no sergeant around. Albert and Zico would be spewing Hokkein vulgarities at the others and the speech they use is often very distasteful. Despite all that, i admit i'm tryin got learn from them because i want to be accepted. This concludes that in order to be accepted, the Speech of the majority must be adopted(how shallow...), and thus explains why some chinese return back home speaking English like a potato/banana.
Perhaps it is due to the inactiveness of my mind, that i'm having difficulties trying to understand what she's trying to say. Each word requires a processing time of one to two seconds, depending on the various factors such as the strength of the accent, the length of the word and most importantly how the spoken word clicks witht the 'word library' in the brain. Thus sentences like "If i... play... understooded, however the... probably... instruction... what you would do..." That explains the blanks... And the problem is when you try to think back on the sentence, it becomes incoherent, and while thinking of it, you miss the next sentence she says. At the end of the lecture, what you learnt is perhaps what was flashed on the screen and how hard it is to understand Australian English when are brought up saying 'lahs' and 'lors'. Lord help me.
The way she speaks, each word comes out a different strength, then similar words but spoken with different strength due to the pattern of the speech comes out different. Complicated? Not really. For example the word 'should', if it is spoken firmly, a firm 'SHOULD' will come out, nice and fine. But if the previous few words came out strong, and the next word is 'should', in addition that there is no emphasis on the word, what comes out is usually "sho..." , and you spend another 2 seconds trying to debate whether she is saying 'should' or 'shit'.
I'm not trying to be funny, but it gets quite comical when you are in a humourous mood. Is speech going to be part of examinations? Because the people sitting in the lecture hall amaze me. Indeed, looks can be deceiving, and what or who is truly great is by what he has in his brains. If someone speaks very coarsely, but has the capability to ace his examinations, he's going to graduate as well. So speech isn't exactly a good determinant for how smart that person is, but it does portray how effective he is able to bring across his point. At this point of time, i'm sure i show quite clearly i am not very effective in bringing my point across, or rather, everything is kind of jumble up here and there, but i am writing as though i am saying, so do pardon me, because my speech ain't too good either.
So maybe i shouldn't comment on the lecturer in front of me, and instead, spend this 30 minutes to try my best to listen to the lecture. So contradicting right, but at least i did some reflection, and i can say i am wiser now in terms of speech than half an hour ago.
"Thoughts for managers:
-To be positive and a good role model." (<----Don't i know this already??)
So what did i learn this lecture???
N.O.T.H.I.N.G.
Yours,
Lah
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