Think twice about that F-bomb in your next talk

Re:Think twice about that F-bomb in your next talk by ChuckMcM on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @08:29PM (#3213807)

Ok, I can see that, but I've seen folks who have tried and failed to make the audience think, that they themselves (the presenter) thought, of themselves (the presenter) as just another voice in the crowd.

In general if one is presenting and choosing to change one's vocabulary and speech habits in order to be less off putting to the audience, one risks coming off as insincere and condescending. Just like prose in the third person singular sounds presumptuous :-)

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Re:Think twice about that F-bomb in your next talk by jimkogs on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @09:19PM (#3213938)

Presenting _is_ choosing to change one's vocabulary and speech habits, in order to bond with the audience. It's a matter of how good one is that determines whether a "fuck" is a fuck-up or a fuck-yes.

[eww, that parallelism felt forced, but I can't resist.]

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