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colloquium
A conference in which various speakers take turns lecturing on a subject and then answering questions about it.
🌱There's a colloquium at Yale on Noah Webster in September, where she's scheduled to deliver a paper. 🌳A colloquy is a conversation, and especially an important, high-level discussion. Colloquy and colloquium once meant the same thing, though today colloquium always refers to a conference. Because of its old "conversation" meaning, however, a colloquium is a type of conference with important question-and-answer periods. soliloquy A dramatic speech that represents a series of unspoken thoughts.
🌱Film characters never have onscreen soliloquies, though they may tell us their thoughts in a voiceover. 🌳Since solus means "alone" in Latin, soliloquies take place when a character is alone onstage, or maybe spotlighted off to one side of a dark stage. Novels have no trouble in expressing to the reader a character's personal thoughts, but such expression is less natural to stage drama. The soliloquies of Shakespeare—in Hamlet （"To be or not to be"）, Macbeth （"Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow"）, Romeo and Juliet （"But soft! what light from yonder window breaks"）, etc.—are the most famous, but modern playwrights such as Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, and Sam Shepard have also employed them. colloquial Conversational in style.
🌱The author, though obviously a professional writer, uses a colloquial style in this new book. 🌳Since colloquy means basically "conversation," colloquial language is the language almost all of us speak. It uses contractions （"can't," "it's," "they've"）, possibly some slang, lots of short words and not many long ones. But our language usually changes when we write, becoming more formal and sometimes even "literary." Except in e-mails and text messages, many people never write a contraction or use the word "I", and avoid informal words completely. But colloquial language isn't necessarily bad in writing, and it's sometimes more appropriate than the alternative. loquacious Apt to talk too much; talkative.
🌱She had hoped to read quietly on the plane, but the loquacious salesman in the next seat made it nearly impossible. 🌳A loquacious speaker can leave a big audience stifling its yawns after the first 45 minutes, and the loquaciousness of a dinner guest can keep everyone else from getting a word in edgewise. Loquacious letters used to go on for pages, and a loquacious author might produce a 1,200-page novel. Lincoln's brief 269-word Gettysburg Address was delivered after a two-hour, 13,000-word speech by America's most famous orator, a windbag of loquacity.
🌱There's a colloquium at Yale on Noah Webster in September, where she's scheduled to deliver a paper. 🌳A colloquy is a conversation, and especially an important, high-level discussion. Colloquy and colloquium once meant the same thing, though today colloquium always refers to a conference. Because of its old "conversation" meaning, however, a colloquium is a type of conference with important question-and-answer periods. soliloquy A dramatic speech that represents a series of unspoken thoughts.
🌱Film characters never have onscreen soliloquies, though they may tell us their thoughts in a voiceover. 🌳Since solus means "alone" in Latin, soliloquies take place when a character is alone onstage, or maybe spotlighted off to one side of a dark stage. Novels have no trouble in expressing to the reader a character's personal thoughts, but such expression is less natural to stage drama. The soliloquies of Shakespeare—in Hamlet （"To be or not to be"）, Macbeth （"Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow"）, Romeo and Juliet （"But soft! what light from yonder window breaks"）, etc.—are the most famous, but modern playwrights such as Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, and Sam Shepard have also employed them. colloquial Conversational in style.
🌱The author, though obviously a professional writer, uses a colloquial style in this new book. 🌳Since colloquy means basically "conversation," colloquial language is the language almost all of us speak. It uses contractions （"can't," "it's," "they've"）, possibly some slang, lots of short words and not many long ones. But our language usually changes when we write, becoming more formal and sometimes even "literary." Except in e-mails and text messages, many people never write a contraction or use the word "I", and avoid informal words completely. But colloquial language isn't necessarily bad in writing, and it's sometimes more appropriate than the alternative. loquacious Apt to talk too much; talkative.
🌱She had hoped to read quietly on the plane, but the loquacious salesman in the next seat made it nearly impossible. 🌳A loquacious speaker can leave a big audience stifling its yawns after the first 45 minutes, and the loquaciousness of a dinner guest can keep everyone else from getting a word in edgewise. Loquacious letters used to go on for pages, and a loquacious author might produce a 1,200-page novel. Lincoln's brief 269-word Gettysburg Address was delivered after a two-hour, 13,000-word speech by America's most famous orator, a windbag of loquacity.
LOQU comes from the Latin verb loqui,"to talk." An eloquent preacher speaks fluently, forcefully, and expressively. And a dummy's words come out of a ventriloquist's mouth—or perhaps out of his belly (in Latin, venter).🌸