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Wednesday, October 7, 2020
Tuesday, August 4, 2020
“No Point in Playing Around with Bows & Arrows of Negative Interest Rates If You Are Actually Using the Bazooka of ...”—Use of Visual, Evocative Expression to Emphasize One’s Point
Here is a recent example of a highly effective communicator
using a vivid, evocative expression while emphasizing something and thus making his assertion indelible—an
example which, I hope, will inspire the rest of us into similarly imaginative
analogies, especially when we are trying to break through the clutter.
- During
a recent edition of “Marketplace Morning Report,” when David Kelly (the highly
regarded Chief Global Strategist at J.P. Morgan Asset Management) was
asked whether he expected the Fed Reserve to “take a page” from Europe’s
central bankers and go negative on interest rates, he responded: “I hope not...The current monetary
policy is by far the most stimulative we’ve ever had... So, no point in playing around
with bows and arrows of negative interest rates if you are actually using
the bazooka of monetizing the federal debt and that’s what the
Federal Reserve is doing.”
© Copyright 2020
V.J. Singal
Monday, August 3, 2020
Strengthening Your Command of the Language: New Edition of “Words of the Month”
If you’ve still not checked out the March/ April 2020
edition of “Words of the Month,” my free vocabulary enrichment feature, I would
urge you to do so right away. It will be removed from my website later this week, possibly as early
as tomorrow. Here are the six
featured words, all of which lie within the conversational vocabulary of
America’s most articulate (as is the case with all of the words featured in my
book, “The Articulate
Professional-3rd Edition”):
1. paean
2. moribund
3. obsequious
4. de rigueur
5. acuity
6. Svengali
Friday, May 29, 2020
Strengthening Your Command of the Language: New Edition of “Words of the Month”
If you’ve still not checked out the January/ February 2020 edition
of “Words of the Month,” my free vocabulary enrichment feature, I would
urge you to do so right away. It will be removed from my website by this coming Sunday. Here
are the six featured words, all of which lie within the conversational
vocabulary of America’s most articulate (as is the case with all of the words
featured in my book, “The Articulate
Professional-3rd Edition”):
1. fantasia
2. genuflect
3. scintillating
4. apocalyptic
5. catatonic
6. recondite
Friday, April 3, 2020
Thursday, April 2, 2020
Strengthening Your Command of the Language: New Edition of “Words of the Month”
If you’ve still not checked out the November/December 2019
edition of “Words of the Month,” my free vocabulary enrichment feature, I would
urge you to do so right away. It will be removed from my website sometime tomorrow. Here are the
six featured words, all of which lie within the conversational vocabulary of
America’s most articulate (as is the case with all of the words featured in my
book, “The Articulate
Professional-3rd Edition”):
1. inestimable
2. petulant
3. cede
4. ham-handed
5. exultant
6. desiccated
Sunday, February 2, 2020
“Imagine Jumping Into a Pool Filled With Milk and Opening Your Eyes”—Use of Visual, Evocative Expression to Emphasize One’s Point
This example is from the immediate aftermath of the
helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant, his daughter, and seven others. As
news reporters and law enforcement officials frantically combed the area
looking for eyewitnesses to the tragedy, the comments by a Scott Daehlin made it
all the way to that day’s ABC Evening News. Why? Because Mr. Daehlin,
presumably one of numerous Los Angeles County residents who had seen or heard the
chopper just before it went down, was brilliantly imaginative
during his brief exchange with the reporter.
Here’s how that conversation went:
ABC reporter: “...You can hear the helicopter?”
Mr. Daehlin: “Yes, but I can’t see anything. All of a sudden, it’s above me—I can hear it but can’t see it.”
ABC reporter: “How
thick was the fog?”
Mr. Daehlin: “It was
thick! Imagine
jumping into a pool filled with milk and opening your eyes.”ABC reporter: “...You can hear the helicopter?”
Mr. Daehlin: “Yes, but I can’t see anything. All of a sudden, it’s above me—I can hear it but can’t see it.”
I salute Scott Daehlin for coming up with such an amazingly
vivid and evocative metaphorical expression to make his point. Very inspiring!
© Copyright 2020
V.J. Singal
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