I'm reminded of something the TA in my college speech class said: If your audience has to think about that fifty-cent word you used, then they aren't listening to you while they're thinking and you aren't communicating effectively.
Having watched the clip, I think I could have figured out some general sense of the word from the context, but it didn't come to me immediately. I think that, in the grander scheme of things, potentially insulting someone's intelligence by assuming they don't know a word that isn't used much in everyday conversation is the lesser evil than potentially leaving people confused. On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 11:29, Mark J. <[email protected]> wrote: > In the course of moderating a recorded discussion on Sunday's "This > Week," Chrstiane Amanpour used the word “perspicacious” and ABC felt > that the typical viewer of Sunday morning discussion programs didn't > know what she was talking about: > > http://watching-tv.ew.com/2011/07/04/christiane-amanpour-perspicaciousabc-news/ > > Personally, I agree with Ken Tucker (and Olbermann and other people > who've responded to this online) that the "This Week" audience either > knows the word or will figure it out and doesn't need a lower third > giving them the definition--what surprises me is how many commenters > are defending ABC, although I wonder if it's more to attack Tucker > than anything else (something tells me that the only blog where people > are generally nice to critics is Ebert's blog). > > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -- David J. Lynch [email protected] -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
