Legend holds that an Oxford "advanced poetics" seminar once devoted an entire five-hour session to the nuances, suggestions, allusions, and overtones in "earth" versus "dirt" or "mud" or "muck." Their discussions allegedly clarified not only the words' most subtle and elusive meanings but also what the choices tell listeners about a speaker's social class, sensitivity, religious and political affiliation, and education. If you have any questions concerning where and how to use Presentation skills training, you can make contact with us at our site.

Communications experts have determined that a speaker's capacity to match his or her message to the audience depends not on his or her appeal to the audience's comprehension but on his or her skill in meeting the people's expectations. Moreover, researchers have found the match depends primarily on the speaker's word choices. If the program declares you are "a leading expert in the field," your audience expects you will use jargon and occasionally will mystify them; if they understand every word and description in your presentation, the audience will feel cheated of your special expertise. At the other end of the continuum, if the program lists you as "the down-to-earth champion of common sense," then the audience naturally expects you will speak simply, directly in a somewhat folksy idiom. If you work in bon mots, the audience will walk away grumbling, "Turned out to be an elitist snob after all."