4-13-06 - Can Writers Speak?

by Gloria

After something like a 10-year hiatus, I have decided to re-join Toastmasters International so that I don’t forget how to speak.

In front of people, that is.

You see, I spend most of my entire day in silence, typing words into a computer. I know how to string words together very well, and everyone says I’m very good at it. However, put me in front of a group and somehow the words in my brain fail to come out of my mouth the way I think they should. I garble things, I trip over my own tongue and I can’t talk fast and beautifully like everyone else. I admire rappers something fierce.

We have an intern here at MMI who speaks so rapidly it’s amazing. How does that “trippingly on the tongue” line from Shakespeare go? It’s Hamlet, I believe: “Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue …”

Anyway, tonight is my first Toastmaster’s meeting in over a decade. I wonder what they will say when I tell the group I am joining because I’m afraid I’ve got a “rusty tongue”?

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