Is spoken language more vivid?

People often have a habit of thinking that spoken language should be simple and superficial, while written language should be perfect and elegant.

In fact, there is not much difference between the spoken and written aspects of modern practical language. Some people always read from the script when speaking, delivering speeches or answering questions. If your spoken English is not vivid and you are not good at speaking without a script, then the manuscripts you write will often be flat, long, dry and boring, and of course they will not have the characteristics of spoken English.

This is the main reason why some people’s spoken expressions are neither popular nor vivid.

The other tendency is to only seek simplicity and clarity without seeking detail and vividness, which is vulgar and superficial.

The correct understanding and practice is: the written language should use as much popular and vivid spoken language as possible; while the spoken language expression should try to absorb the concise and rigorous words in the written language. Only in this way will our language be easy to understand and lively.

In the process of giving a speech, there is another characteristic of the audience's perception of the speech that is well-known but often ignored, and that is colloquialism. Ordinarily speaking, speech is mainly oral expression, and the colloquial language should not be a problem. However, because speeches are always more standardized, elegant and lively than ordinary casual conversations or speaking in informal settings, and also because many speakers often pile up rhetoric, craft sentences or excerpts from newspapers when preparing their manuscripts, they think it is a formality. Literary talent, which makes it easy to "article-like" the language of the speech.

So, how to make your speech colloquial? Try to choose bi-syllable words and pay attention to the syllable matching of the words. Spoken language has a linear flow structure, meaning is conveyed by sound, and it disappears in an instant. It is not like reading a book or reading a newspaper. If you don’t understand it after reading it once, you can read it twice again. Therefore, it is best to use disyllabic or multi-syllable words for synonymous words. Don't use monosyllabic ones. One of the reasons why ancient Chinese is difficult to understand is that it often uses monosyllabic words. Most of the words in modern Chinese have changed from the original monosyllables to disyllabic or multi-syllables, which makes it easier for people to hear clearly and is more suitable for "oral transmission" or "ear listening". For example, "When I first fell in love" is more fluent and easier to hear than "When I first fell in love"; to say "Because I have not received special speech training" is worse than "Because I have not received special speech training". "Speech Training" appears soothing and clear. Of course, it is not that monosyllabic words cannot be used at all, but to express the same meaning, it is better to use less monosyllabic words and more bisyllabic or multi-syllable words.

In terms of wording style, use more popular and vivid "ready-made words" instead of using white words. When speaking, you should use more "ready-made words" that are simple, popular, lively and lively. The poet Ai Qing is very proficient in elegant language, but he also emphasized in "On Poetry": "The most natural language is spoken language."

Ai Qing pays attention to colloquialism when writing poems. Be better at using popular "ready-made words" when giving speeches. In his speech "Several Issues in Creation", he talked about how artists should be more rooted in life: "An artist who leaves life is like a tree pulled out of the soil and will wither; like a fish out of water, it will die. You can't survive; like a child who loses his milk, he will shed tears." Three appropriate metaphors are used here to vividly illustrate the principle that literary and artistic creation is inseparable from life. When he talked about "the world has opened up, but the distance has shortened" in "Talk about Poetry with Poetry Lovers", he said: "Our era is not an era of writing poems while riding a donkey."

There is a The joke goes that a doctor who is new to clinical practice is very polite in speech. When diagnosing the patient, he asked:

"Does your hypochondriac hurt?" The patient was confused and had to answer: "My shoes never hurt, sometimes my feet hurt." It's really dumbfounding. This doctor Also very embarrassing.

The language should be popular, not only for the sake of being concise and easy to understand, nor for being shallow, vulgar, and boring, but for the sake of being both easy to understand, concrete, vivid, vivid, and lively. The reason why Lao She uses spoken language as much as possible in his works is not only to make it clear and easy to understand, but also to make the language vivid and lively.

This is just as Qin Mu said in "Shibei from the Sea of ??Art": "Throughout the past dynasties, the masterpieces that pioneered a generation's literary style and the wonderful essays that caused the decline of the previous generation have all gone against the conventional style to a certain extent. The habit of written language and the courage to use living spoken language.

When the ancient storytellers talked about the uneasiness of the characters in the story, they did not say uneasy, but said, "There are fifteen buckets in the heart to fetch water, and they were up and down." When they talked about shame, they did not say that their faces were full of shame, but said, "I wish I had it. "Drill down into a hole in the ground"; when talking about running away quickly, instead of saying "running away quickly", he said "I only wish my parents had two legs"; when talking about being anxious, instead of saying "hurried", he said "as anxious as a dog on a hot pot". Ant'. All of these have won praise and applause from the audience, and they still have a strong sense of image and freshness that has been passed down to this day. ”

Obviously, easy-to-understand spoken language should contain lively meanings. Popular, not vulgar: easy to understand, not superficial. This clear point will help us to have a positive attitude Treat the problem of speaking in an easy-to-understand manner