Writing and Speaking

http://www.paulgraham.com/speak.html

by kirinan • 14 years ago

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kirinan2• 14 years ago

Either I went incredibly fast and just stumbled upon the most recent essay, or it was never posted. Either way, I think his point is very valid, and in my experience, completely correct that it is how you say something and not how you say it. If you say something with enough passion and vigor, people will associate that with correctness and importance, even if it completely wrong.

mattmanser• 14 years ago

Full discussion of previous submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3720332

Yours has a different subdomain.

kirinan2• 14 years ago

Oh wow, I completely missed that. Thank you! I will contribute that post.

samikc• 14 years ago

It has very valid points. It reminds me a classic Plato's Gorgias[1], where Socrates has described in length "the art of oratory".

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgias_(dialogue)

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