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Public Speaking, Wednesday, February 12
"Good morning everyone," Richie said with a totally not evil grin. "I hope you're all ready for the weekend. Off the theme of Valentine's Day, a day I'm sure will result in many, many inappropriate and funny situations, we're going to talk about defamation."
"Defamation, is, essentially, making a harmful statement about someone. In relation to this class, we'll be dealing with slander, which is the harmful statement spoken aloud. When I say harmful, of course, I don't mean just something that makes the victim sad. It has to damage their reputation in the community--and it can't be true. If I say you eat babies, and you actually do eat babies, then I haven't slandered you. If you don't eat babies, I'm pretty sure that will have damaged your reputation, and you'd probably press charges. Some basic types of slander are accusing someone of having comitted a crime (not to the cops, though you shouldn't lie to them either), saying someone has a contagious disease, says you cheated on your husband or wife, or says something to ruin your business. On the other, awesome, hand, if something is true, you can shout it from the rooftops. Yay."
"Basically what I'm getting at here is that, when you're speaking in public, you really shouldn't defame people. However, in order to make sure that you really understand what I'm telling you, I'd like you to think of some examples of slander. They can be about classmates, teachers, people on tv. Entertain me, obviously."
(OOC- This is the worst explaining job ever. There's a Wikipedia entry on it, if you're really interested. Or bored. I'm going to bed right after I post this (yay!), but since I just moved back to school I will be online a lot! Yay!)
"Defamation, is, essentially, making a harmful statement about someone. In relation to this class, we'll be dealing with slander, which is the harmful statement spoken aloud. When I say harmful, of course, I don't mean just something that makes the victim sad. It has to damage their reputation in the community--and it can't be true. If I say you eat babies, and you actually do eat babies, then I haven't slandered you. If you don't eat babies, I'm pretty sure that will have damaged your reputation, and you'd probably press charges. Some basic types of slander are accusing someone of having comitted a crime (not to the cops, though you shouldn't lie to them either), saying someone has a contagious disease, says you cheated on your husband or wife, or says something to ruin your business. On the other, awesome, hand, if something is true, you can shout it from the rooftops. Yay."
"Basically what I'm getting at here is that, when you're speaking in public, you really shouldn't defame people. However, in order to make sure that you really understand what I'm telling you, I'd like you to think of some examples of slander. They can be about classmates, teachers, people on tv. Entertain me, obviously."
(OOC- This is the worst explaining job ever. There's a Wikipedia entry on it, if you're really interested. Or bored. I'm going to bed right after I post this (yay!), but since I just moved back to school I will be online a lot! Yay!)
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