QUALITIES OF UN-OFFENSIVE SPEECH
Speech is communication, expression,
delivery, address, oration, discourse, lecture. sermon, parlance, and utterance.
It conveys thoughts, feelings, ideas, emotions, feelings, information, news,etc.
What matters more than the purpose of
a speech is the style of the speaker. He should be gentle, sweet, appreciative,
positive, pleasing, humorous, gratifying, and admirable.
It will be dangerous if he is
bitter, critical, harsh, fault-finder, and offensive.
His speech should be persuasive, not
provocative; easy to understand; appropriately
brief; and, as far as possible, according to the expectations of his listeners.
According to a famous quote :
Non-offensive speech respects the dignity, feelings, and background of others.
It relies on respectful, precise, and inclusive language that avoids demeaning
groups, attacking personal identities, or using unnecessary hostility.”
A good speech is appreciated, not
condemned. It does not start an unpleasant discussion.
If you are talking about the dead,
be gentle and courteous. According to a proverb : nothing but good should be
talked about the dead.
Don’t be communal or sectarian in
your speech. An English professor of English literature James Kirkup (1918-2009)
says:
Remember, no men are strange, no countries
foreign,
Beneath all uniforms, a single body breathes
Like
ours; the land our brothers walk upon
Is
earth like this, in which we all shall lie.
The title of the poem is: No Men Are Foreign and the last stanza
carries the following words:
It
is the human earth that we defile,
Our
hells of fire and dust outrage the innocence
Of
air that is everywhere our own.
Remember,
no men are foreign, and no countries strange.
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PUNCHLINE: Speech is silvern, silence is golden;
speech is human, silence is divine.----German
Proverb.
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G.R.Kanwal
23 August 2026
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