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| Topic: Healthy, Respectful, and STIMULATING Debate | |
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For a debate to be "informative", "respectful", "stimulating" and "enlightening", a few points, I feel, are in order:
(a) Participants need to leave their "ego" behind. (b) One needs to be a patient "listener" in order to be a good/effective "orator" (c) Each of the participants should possess an "open" mind. (d) Participants MUST be well-read, well-versed.. Their knowledge of "Current Affairs" AND "General Awareness" must be "nearly" impeccable. (e) Participants must be experienced in the "art of logic and reasoning" with patience, politeness and firmness. Being "firm" doesn't necessitate one to be "impolite" or "hurl abuses at one another" or "unsheathe barrels/swords/pistols/daggers OR any other "plausible" weapon of MASS destruction"! (f) It's essential that the speakers need to be gifted with the minimum degree of "articulateness" in her/his speech and expression. (g) LAST BUT NOT LEAST: Must possess "self-respect" by showing the minimum courtesy to fellow-contestants. THANK YOU. :-) |
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Grammatically Incorrect:
(f) It's essential that the speakers need to be gifted with the minimum degree of "articulateness" in her/his speech and expression. Now Stands Rectified: (f) It's essential that the speakers need to be gifted with the minimum degree of "articulateness" in their speech and expression. |
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Grammatically Incorrect: (f) It's essential that the speakers need to be gifted with the minimum degree of "articulateness" in her/his speech and expression. Now Stands Rectified: (f) It's essential that the speakers need to be gifted with the minimum degree of "articulateness" in their speech and expression. I think the term is "articulation". But I could be wrong...wouldn't be the first time. |
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Grammatically Incorrect: (f) It's essential that the speakers need to be gifted with the minimum degree of "articulateness" in her/his speech and expression. Now Stands Rectified: (f) It's essential that the speakers need to be gifted with the minimum degree of "articulateness" in their speech and expression. I think the term is "articulation". But I could be wrong...wouldn't be the first time. I think you are correct. THIS time... 
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Edited by
DavidCommaGeek
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Thu 01/29/15 10:35 AM
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Mostest grammaticly correctified:
"It's essential the speakers be gifted with the minimum degree of articulation in their speech and expression." "Essential" and "need" fill the same grammatical role; it's redundant to include both. "Articulateness" is a word, but it's more of a descriptor than a noun, like "handiness" or "quietness", where the root word is an adjective. ---- What was the topic, again? Oh, right - healthy, respectful, and STIMULATING debate. You sure we're talking about debate? Sounds an awful lot like another competitive activity... |
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Mostest grammaticly correctified: "It's essential the speakers be gifted with the minimum degree of articulation in their speech and expression." "Essential" and "need" fill the same grammatical role; it's redundant to include both. ---- What was the topic, again? Oh, right - healthy, respectful, and STIMULATING debate. You sure we're talking about debate? Sounds an awful lot like another competitive activity... It's healthy to debate grammar, too... 
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Thank You Both, "David" And "Vanilla" for "enlightening" me regarding "that" element of "grammatical incorrectness"
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Edited by
DavidCommaGeek
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Thu 01/29/15 10:52 AM
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>.> And it's what I was trained to do. They don't let me put it into practice much... |
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You are quite welcome, Kaustuv.
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