700 Common Words Exercise No. 23
How we say a thing is generally just as important as
what we say. Sometimes it is important because we can change the meaning of the
words we use by the way we say them. If we place weight on one word rather than
on another we can change the feeling of our words. By changing the expression
of our voice we can suggest that we are serious or that we are speaking only in
Play. For example, you may say to friend: You really are the most senseless
person I ever met! With such a remark you could break with your friend forever,
but in 9 cases out of 10 such a remark will have been made lightly, as if in
play, and if under the words there is just a suggestion of seriousness your
friend is free not to remark upon it because you have made the statement so
lightly. Sometimes people do not wish it to be said that they are not speaking
the truth, and yet they do not want to speak the truth. They therefore take
words which in themselves could be true but use them in such a way as to
suggest a different meaning. It is not, however, only in connection with
meaning or the results of our words that it is important to be careful. How we
use voices is important in itself. We often hear such remarks as: She has such
a pleasing speaking voice or Her voice really gets me down. I simply could not
live with it. And it is true that there are voices we like to hear and voices
that we do not like to hear. Few of us really know the sound of our own voices.
It seems that our hearing is not planned in such a way as to let us hear
ourselves perfectly. We therefore often go through life thinking we speak in
one way when, in fact, we speak in some quite different way. Our opportunities
for hearing our own voices are much better than they used to be because
recording machines are now quite common, and most of us can find an opportunity
at some time or another to speak into such a machine and then have the record
played back. Generally such an experience is a surprise. I was personally very
much surprised at my own voice. The first time I heard a record of it was some
years ago. I was in a strange town, and I went into a big store. This store
offered for quite a small sum to let you speak into the recording machine and
they would then send the record of your voice to any part of the world. I
thought it would be good to send a few words home to my mother, and I
accordingly thought up a few words, said them, paid, and went away. Some weeks
afterwards I heard the record. It was a surprise but no just the kind of
surprise I like. I had always thought I had a rather light voice and said my
words reasonably quickly. I found that on the record my voice was low, almost
deep, and that I had been speaking at a very rate. More recently I made a
full-size record speaking throughout at 100 words a minute, but the result was
just the same. On the play-back I heard a low, rather deep voice, speaking at
about 10 words a minute! We can never really know ourselves what we look like,
what we sound like, how our actions appear to others. Perhaps this is just as
well because, even if we cannot really see ourselves as we are, it is equally
certain that other people do not see us as we really are, either. The opinions
each person holds about another person are influenced by that person’s many
experiences, as well as by the quality of the person’s own hearing and seeing.
There is one thing that we can do, however, and that is to train ourselves to
speak and act in a way that we ourselves believe to be satisfactory. If we
cannot please others we can at least try to please ourselves, but it is
important, highly important in fact, that we try to follow only the best
examples.
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