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Episode: 0302 – 9 – By Super-Stressing One Insignificant Word, You Downplay The Sense Of The Sentence
Description: 2021.10.29 – 0302 – 9 – By Super-Stressing One Insignificant Word, You Downplay The Sense Of The Sentence“Christmas is the best time of the year.” It’s a short, straightforward sentence: this speaker loves Christmas! It is simply the best! Therefore, the words that are most-coloured are:· Christmas · BestAnd slightly-coloured:· Year “Christmas is the best time of the year.” But some people fall for the temptation of saying: “Christmas is the best time of the year.” By highlighting “the” (possibly with a change of pronunciation from ‘thuh’ to ‘thee’) you downgrad...