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Key points include:
- Defining Texture: Texture in speech refers to word choice and the ability to use language in creative ways, differentiating between a “tough challenge” and a “thorny problem,” or “wearing too much perfume” versus being “baptized in perfume.”
- Relationship with Language: The words you use reflect your relationship with language, which is influenced by your “surface lexicon” and “deep lexicon.”
- Surface Lexicon: This consists of about 1,500 words you use without conscious thought.
- Deep Lexicon: This comprises 25,000 to 35,000 words that require more thought to retrieve.
- Moving Words to Surface Lexicon: Simple repetition, such as using a word 200 times consciously, can move it from your deep to your surface lexicon. This process is essentially a form of deliberate practice.
- Importance of Patterns: Word selection patterns are often reflective of personality and influence people, with the Greeks identifying over 250 rhetorical devices. These patterns are a result of inputs from upbringing, parents, books, and other content.
- Improving Textured Language: If you don’t use textured language, it’s often due to insufficient exposure to it. The three steps to improve, all of which benefit from deliberate practice, are:
- Finding Articulate Language
- Collecting Articulate Language
- Practicing Articulate Language
