Welcome to Smart Start À La Carte. This is your à la carte path to linguistic excellence. Each edition includes an impressive array of ways to make an impression. Some will be simple specific spoon-fed examples that you can slide into your daily dialog. Some will be a description or definition of a pattern, concept or category of persuasive communication with an example, of course.
“Now” | Now what better way to create urgency linguistically. Push yourself to build “now” into your language more often by peppering your every utterance with it.
e.g. “Now, what was I saying.” “Now when are you going to start that project?” “Bob wants us to start that project. Now is as good a time as ever.” ”I want it now, now, now!”
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Latin Logical Phrase | argumentum a fortiori: I use it a lot in my writing. Search my posts (use this link) and you’ll find many examples. Read my posts and you’ll learn them in context. Hey, if my Mom reads them and likes them, so will you.
FigaroSpeech.com describes this better than anyone. “Remember the commercial for Life Cereal, the one where the brothers experiment on picky little Mikey? If Mikey liked it, the boys figured, anyone would. That’s an argument a fortiori: If something less likely is true, then something more likely will probably be true as well.”
e.g. “…Al and Tipper Gore were separating — the “if they can’t make it, who can” ruminations…” If that’s a true statement, we’re all in trouble!
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