Hallelujah! A nerd with a Scrabble t-shirt is finally sticking it to the slang speaking man! Taylor Mali is a quasi genius. He found a way to encourage people to speak with conviction, without having them fall asleep in the process. No one wants to be lectured about how they talk like a neanderthal, or how they don't sound like they believe in what they are saying. Mali uses humor to sneak in a real issue at hand. "it is not enough these days to simply QUESTION AUTHORITY. You have to speak with it, too. " How can anyone see you as a learned scholar, when you cannot complete a sentence without saying "like". I'm not trying to be a hypocrite, so I will admit to falling into the trap of modern day slang every so often. People like Mali remind me that I should rebel against the easy ways of modern slang, and return to proper Standard English. Some of the greatest leaders, like Martin Luther King Jr and Abraham Lincoln, were great leaders because of how they captured an audience with their conviction and tone. Mali mentions how our, supposed, declarative sentences no longer declare anything. "What has happened to our conviction?" Should we be okay with the fact that we like don't care about what we are like saying anymore? No, we should not be okay with that! We should all make a concerted effort to improve our conviction and our speaking tone in general. We shouldn't be talking in questions whenever we have a conversation with someone. Let us all take what Taylor Mali said and keep it in our back pocket it for future reminiscing.
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