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https://app.podscribe.ai/episode/53757921Speaker 0 (0s): Hey are you listening? If you want to hear it, a secret, look around and make sure everyone's around you. If you want to hear it, I think you're amazing. Seriously. I think you're amazing. You're like a different version of me. A super awesome, ah, hello. My friends, ladies and gentlemen. I hope you are having a beautiful day. You know that I'm serious. I hope you days going awesome.
I hope that you were able to look in the mirror. It makes some good eye contact. I kind of flirt with yourself a little bit. You ever do that? Look in the mirror and be like, Hey, all right, so handsome. Or if you look in the mirror in your life, you've been working out its kind of fun. It's kind of fun and you should try it at the very least. It'll make you smile at the very least will make you smile. And I think if you could start off your day with a smile, you can start off in the right frame of mind.
That's what I think that being said. I wanna start off today with a funny story. I heard awhile back. This was a story about a, a new this cat back back in the day. I don't know he was in college. So what was that? I'm 45. So that was that I don't know, 23 years ago, something like that, maybe 25 years ago. And he was living with his girlfriend.
However, he didn't want his parents to know that him and his girlfriend where, you know, they were lovers. And so one day his mom came to visit for dinner and she sat down for dinner with her son and his lovely roommate. And the mom was, you know, just talking to him, both the mom had obviously notice we, you know, when you're in a relationship, people can tell you together for those of you that might be younger.
Your mom knows. All right, just listen to your mom. Know that you can't fool your mom. You might think you can fool your mom, but you cannot fool your mom. Alright, just for these knuckleheads out there. And I know you going to try, but telling is pointless. So long story longer. If there is sitting down to dinner and the mom kind of notices their mannerisms a little bit and, and the sun notices her noticing them. And so the sun says, mom, I know what's your thinking. However, this lovely woman here is not, we are, we are just friends.
She's my roommate. You know what? When I gave you the tour of the house, I showed you both rooms and she's a lovely girl. However, we are, we are just friends. We are not in a romantic relationship. And the mom just says, Oh, okay, well, you know, no big deal. I was, I was just like, ah, I was kind of curious. I was going to ask, but thanks for letting me know. And the mom leaves and, and goes home about a week later, the my friend's lovely lover says to him.
She says, Brian, I can't find the silver plate that we had. Remember we had, we had three silver plates when your mom came for dinner. And I can't find that other silver plate. And I haven't seen him since your mom left. You think maybe she'd put it somewhere and maybe she moved to it. And then Brian goes, ah, I don't think my mom took it. And his, his love the girl, but it was, well, I don't think she took it. However, I just haven't seen it. And so Brian goes, you know what, let me, let me email her.
And so he shoots her an email in it. It says, mom, hope that you're doing well. Just wanted to ask. I'm not saying I'm missing the silver plate. Remember when you came over for dinner and, and we had a nice dinner and you know, I'm missing one of the silver plates. I'm not saying you took the plate or I'm not saying you didn't take the plate. The fact remains. I have seen the plate since you were here for dinner. I love ya. Your son, Brian, So about a day goes by and he gets a message back from his mom.
And it says, dear Brian, I'm not saying that you do sleep with your roommate. And I'm not saying that you don't sleep with your roommate. But the fact remains that if she was sleeping in her own bed, she would have found the silver plate by now under her pillow. That's hilarious. Right?
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Speaker 0 (5m 4s): You see that? You tried to mess with a mom, you got a mess with your mom. She would get ya. Do you think, you know, But moms know best to my mom. I love you. If you're a mom listening to this than you are an amazing woman. When I think about all the women, I know that are moms. I'm so thankful. I know some beautiful women in it. I know some beautiful women listening to this right now. And I'm going to tell you, you are an awesome mom. If I could be right there with you, I'd give you a big hug until you.
I love ya until you thank you for being in a good mom. And it takes a good mom to raise a good man. You guys know that right behind every good man. There's a good woman. We all got our name from a woman. And we all got our understanding of life from a woman. So men should understand that women, you should know that to be careful who you're raising, they kept what kind of man you raising because you are the first woman that a man ever falls in love with. Do you teach them? Alright, so let's get back into some linguistic abilities here.
I've been switching back and forth between strategy and Language. And I really think that there are interconnected for some of you. This is probably going to be just another review of words and things to think about. However, I want to try to do a different series on a particular peculiar. I can't even say that I would like to try and shed some light on a beautiful peculiar pieces of Language that most people do not even know about our use.
That being said, let us begin with a little term known as on a deeper closeness on a D plus on a deep fear, are these two and angry or they used to hate hate leads to suffering. Yoda is known for wrong. His word order getting, but is the most quoted line from star Wars, episode one, the Phantom menace use a different figure entirely Yoda announces that fear leads to anger.
He then takes the last word of that sentence and repeats it as the first word of the next anger leads to hatred. He then takes the last word of that sentence and repeats it as the first word of the next hatred leads to suffering. This is a case of honored a closeness. It links him directly to a previous spiritual teacher. Anyone, anyone you have to take a guess st. Paul, right?
We glory in tribulations. Also knowing that tribulation, worketh, patience, and patience, experience and experience hope and hope. Make it man, not ashamed. It is the antidote closeness, the repetition of the last word of one clause as the first word of the next, that gives both lines that are power. Whether they're written by a Saint or uttered by a small green alien guys with me so far, it has these little literary devices that can really punctuate that can really add influence to the words you're using.
But more than the words you're using, they can add weight too. The idea of you're trying to get across to people. They can make you a better communicator. The content doesn't matter much. In fact, ended up closes doesn't care. What you say and will give it's groggy Taz to a diametrically opposed opinions. Yoda seems to Think suffering or a bad thing, but there's another semi fictional American character called Jesse Jackson who observed that suffering breeds character.
Character breeds faith in the end. Faith will not disappoint in any way. Yoda his lines look similar to those of Richard. The second as set down by one William Shakespeare, the love of wicked men converts to fear that fear to hate and hate turns one or both to wear the danger and deserve a death. So between Yoda, Jesse Jackson, and Shakespeare, we may have a change in philosophy.
This isn't necessarily a bad thing. Malcolm X observed that once you change your philosophy, you change your thought pattern. Once you change your thought pattern, you change your attitude. Once you change your attitude, it changes your behavior pattern. And then you go on into some action and action in my experience ends and tiredness and the need for a drink, drink leads to drunkenness. Drunkenness leads to a hangover hangovers cause suffering, suffering leads to dot.dot.
But anyway, this chain has gone on for long enough in one cannot be quite sure where it starts and ends only that it sounds lovely because of antidote closeness and it uploads. This gives the illusion of logic like a conquering general that arrives at a word. Plant's a flag there and then moves on by doubling down. It makes everything seem strong, structured in certain like George, Monty very handsome in general.
Of course, that doesn't mean that things are strong structured in certain that's a logical fallacy called qualled. That's a tough luck. That's a logical fallacy called the quartino Tara Morum or fallacy of the four terms that goes something like this. A ham sandwich was better than nothing. Nothing is better than eternal happiness. So we turn off the happiness is beaten by the ham sandwich. The trig there is that the specific meaning of nothing has been changed from lack of food to impossibility.
Yoda coulda said that fear leads to running away and running away. It leads to safety. If the line has simply been fear, leads to anger, which leads to hate, which leads to suffering. It wouldn't have sounded half as good or half as convincing, but with the doubling of ended up closest, it feels like an inevitable progress of coarse and a diploma. If it doesn't have to be used for logic, it can simply out of harmony in the same way that a repeated musical phrase binds two sections together.
So Milton morning is dead friend and life to this role for a license is dead. Dead. Air is prime and later, but Oh, the heavy chains now though are gone. Now that you are gone and Never must return. And in a closeness, it gives the glue and a connection to the linen and McCarthy song here or there and everywhere to lead a better life.
I need my love to be here, here making each day of the year, changing my life with the wave of her hand, nobody can deny that there's something there, there were getting my hands, do her hair, both of us thinking how good it can be. Someone is speaking, but she doesn't know he's there. There was simply a satisfaction, half a logical and a half beautiful and seeing the same word ending one phrase and coming back to life at the start of the next it is progression.
Progression is a story. A story leads to a climax just as here leads there. And there are leads everywhere. It kind of sells like a cat and they had a little bit, it doesn't look as the emperor communists. Didn't actually put it when chatting to the utterly fictional Maximus decimas Meridius Russell is a CRO was in the film, gladiator, the general who became a slave, the slave who became a gladiator, the gladiator who defied an emperor striking story.
And it is, but only when an applause, this is on hand, the general who became a slave who became a gladiator who defined it, the emperor, what sounds like it rather incoherent nursery rhyme, but perhaps the greatest and it uploads. This is not a biblical or a Shakespearean. It simply a description of a dismal dinner. And nobody knows who wrote it. If the soup has been as warm as the wine and the wine is old as the fish and the fish, as young as the main and the main, as willing as the hostess, it would have been a very good meal, which is an example of a periodic sentence, periodic sentence.
Should we get into that right now? Where do you guys think? All right, let's do it. The little.at the end of a sentence is either a called a full stop. Or if you are of the American persuasion, which I am. Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (15m 5s): What are your favorite kinds of Wood's? It depends on my mood. Sometimes a lot, just a simple word, like pine, a burnished Pyne a other times we'll have Oak and an Oak Planck. Sometimes I'll just, I'll look at an Oak Planck and we'll just stare at talk to him and say, I wish you could tell me stories about your life as a tree, but you can't now cause some of the purview up into a plank, that's the way it is a you don't, you know, what would I hate? Let me guess balsa wood. Exactly. Balsa wood stupid yet.
So flimsy, does it feel like a real wood? Yes. It it's kind of like if you had steal the consistency of clay, that is it really steel when we put it that way makes a lot of sense. Yeah. It is like the cower to woods or the other would that I don't, I don't care for is bamboo, right? Is not even wood bamboos lately been a cocky. No, I know everyone is getting like a bamboo hardwood floor. I'm like, that's not wood. I know now bamboo thinks it's wood and a, you know, it p****s me off.
That's some communists hide behind Yeah. Tell me about a communist and Panda bears.
Speaker 0 (16m 17s): A period. In fact, Americans like me rather like saying the word period allowed in order to add emphasis, as in you can't do that period, or we'll wait a certain amount of time, period. This all goes back to the notion of a period as a complete cycle of time and thus a complete or periodic sentience. The period is one of the most complicated and convoluted concepts of classical rhetoric.
Nobody in the ancient world could quite decide what it meant, but they were United. And the belief that it was terribly terribly important. I mean very important period. Fortunately in English, we tend to make a much more limited view of the periodic sentence is simply a very big sentence. That is not complete until the end. Now you might think that no Senator is complete until the end, but you might have friend would be wrong.
That last sentence could have finished out the comma. The but you would be wrong was not grammatically necessary. In fact, if you got bored halfway through you, could've put this book down and gone off to make a cup of tea with no syntactic shadow hanging over you. The same cannot be said of Rudyard Kipling's poem. If, if is one long, 294 word sentence, 273 of which are conditional clauses.
If you can keep your head, trust yourself, dream Think it's cetera. Then you can finally get to the main verb on the 31st line. And then yours is the earth and everything that's in it. And which has more, you will be a man. My son, the trick of the periodic sentence is that until you've got two, the end until you found that clause or a verb that completes the syntax until you finally get to the period of the period, you can't stop Kipling forces you along to the climax, read the first line of if and you have to read on until like nine 31 before your grammatically satisfied.
And by that time you might as well read line 30 to just so you can say, yeah, Shakespeare. We are used the same trick, but usually by piling nouns, one on top of the other, in the Tempest Prospero says, and like the bass, this fabric of the vision, the cloud cap, tower's the gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yi all which is inherent shell dissolve.
He knew he knew the reader can't stop until they get to that main verb. The Tempest example is actually remarkably restrained for Shakespeare in John of the death scene. And Richard, the second, the old man is meant to be so ill. He could barely speak one wonders there for how he managed to take a breath deep enough for this periodic parade.
The Royal throne of King's this sector isle this earth of majesty to cede of Mars. This other Eden, my paradise, this fortune was built by nature, four self against infection on the hand of war. This happy breed of men, this little world is precious stone said in the silver CE, which serves it in the office of a wall or as a moat defensive to a house against the envy of less happier lands.
This bless it. Plot this earth, this realm, this England, this nerves, this teaming woom of Royal Kings feared by their breed and famous by their birth renowned for their deeds as far from home for Christian service in true chivalry, as it is the <inaudible> in stubborn jewelry of the words, ransom, bless it. Mary Sion, this land of such dear souls. This dear dear land Deere for the repetition to the world is now a leased out.
I doubt I die pronouncing it by two, a tenement and pelting pharm. The substance of that sentence is in England is now least out everything else is from the point of view of content irrelevant, but England is now least out is much too tedious. The shake spear knew that content or was it not nearly as important as form?
Think about that. Content is not as important as forum. If you want to know what actually happened at Richard, the second, we had a history book, Shakespeare, his in it for the periods so long as you remember not to blurt out your main verb to early. So as long as you begin clause after clause with when or if or thought or while or so long, so long as you have very large lungs that you can keep you going through 14 opposite clauses for England, despite the fact that you're on your deathbed.
So as long as you don't mind being a tad artificial, periodic sentences are a doodle in the song. Every breath you take, even in the midst of a jealous rage stings, still maintain the SelfControl to save his main verb for the end of every verse, every breath you take a big every move you make every bond. Do you break every day? Yep. You take, I'll be watching you.
That is so creepy. Isn't that creepy? And like everybody listen to that song. It was like a great love story. It's a freaking weirdo. Hey man, I'm a peep in Tom. My name is people on steam. Likewise. If the four tops reach out all be there. You have a long series of temporal clauses introduced by the word. When, before you get your reassurance, however, you don't need to keep using exactly the same structure to stop the sentence.
Finishing Kipling had his conditional clauses, Shakespeare and staying. There are nouns, but Milton managed to hold off the first verb of paradise lost by digging a huge grammatical whole and setting up camp in it like this of man's first disobedience and the fruit of that forbidden tree who is mortal tastes, brought death into the world and all our woe with loss of Eden, till one greater man restore us.
The reign, the blissful seat sing heavenly muse, which is an example of what we will be getting on to tomorrow hypo taxes. And for those of you wondering, this is from a phenomenal book to a set of books. This particular one is called the elements of eloquence, how to turn the perfect English phrase. And it is by the author, Mark Forsyth.
I will of course put a link in the show notes. That being said, my friends, I hope that you understand how much I love you, how much the world loves you. I hope you understand that love leads to happiness and happiness, Leeds to fulfillment and fulfillment Leeds to a land called homily and homily has lakes of chocolate milk and the Lake's of chocolate milk.
I have giant marshmallows. You can lay on some of those giant marshmallows that you can lay on gross psychedelic mushrooms that you can eat and psychedelic mushrooms that you can eat LEED to love God. You see what I did there. You see what I did there. I love you guys. If you have a great day and we'll be back tomorrow with some linguistic structures to help you be a better communicator, hope you explain yourself better and to spread some love a lot.