Verbal Eloquence

If I think of fabulous women from different time periods I think of Audrey Hepburn and Carrie Bradshaw.  An icon and a sex columnist, both of whom are trés sophistiqué.  Besides knowing the importance of a stiletto, these women all have one thing in common that made them the women we think of today- they knew how to speak.  Easy right? We all know how to speak, so we should all be sophistiqué as well.  It really does sound as simple as clasping a Tiffany bracelet.  Unfortunately, just because we KNOW the words we should say doesn't always mean we will say them.  A good vocabulary can come in handy in more ways than one.

Let me first pose a question, have you ever been taking a stroll (perhaps down 5th Ave or the Champs-Élysées) and heard a woman going off on her cell phone?  Is there anything that is more unpleasant to the ears than having to hear someone relentlessly cuss in public?  The answer is no.  If you are one of these women who is yelling at their boyfriends in public I request that you stop, because you look rather trashy.  No one likes a potty mouth.  Yes we all cuss on occasion (albeit I'd rather I didn't), but let's keep it amongst friends and in closed quarters shall we?

A multifarious (look that baby up, I did) vocabulary can also make you seem far more informed about a subject than you actually are.  Yes, if you can pepper your conversations with fantastic words then you can hold your own in an array of different conversations.  Be warned though, just because you sound sophisticated doesn't all of a sudden make you an Einstein, so don't go to overboard and know your own conversational limits.

Lastly, a chic lexicon is just pleasant to the ears.  The right words in the right places can make a huge difference.  It's quite annoying hearing people overuse words such as: like, sick, mad (it's an emotion, not a variation of very), cool, uhmm (dreadful time waster), and words of that nature.  Instead, why not spruce up your conversation with lovely adverbs and interesting adjectives.

I know it can be hard to think of new or less popular words to use in conversation, so I would like to help.  Every day I shall be posting a new word of the day, kind of like those adorable calendars our grade school teachers used to keep on their desks.  Try integrating them into your vocabulary each day and I suspect that you will be sounding more eloquent as each day passes.