Democratic presidential nomineeĀ Kamala Harris stopped her fans from getting too wild with theirĀ Trump bashing at a campaign rally in Wisconsin on Wednesday.
On the second day of her battleground blitz with running mateĀ Tim Walz, when she got to the point in her now-familiar stump speech about her days prosecuting predators, fraudsters and scammers, supporters, like those inĀ Philadelphia on Tuesday, were just starting to chant ālock him upā when Harris deviated from the script.
āWell, hold on,ā she said, holding out her hand as if to placate the crowd in Eau Claire, Wisc. āYou know what, the courts are going to handle that part of it. What weāre gonna do is beat him in November.ā
Speeches donāt include unintentional parts like āuhā. And there was no recording of Caesar speaking.
Caesar also would shout one line at a time and wait for people to repeat it for the people father away. Iām sure it was awesome live, but an audio recording would sound very strange to a modern listener.
Thatās pretty cool, and it makes sense. I always wondered how people heard speakers back in the day. Thank you
A classical grammatical rule says: āA sentence must express a complete thought, be able to be written down, and speakable in one breath,ā which makes a hell of a lot more sense once you get the context of oration.
Interesting, because a lot of literature from 150 years ago breaks the hell out of that rule. Like authors were one upping each other to see how long they can get away with not using a period.
Yeah thatās almost 2 millennia post-classical. Printing press had been around for 400 years at that point.
I went to a Bernie rally once and it was somewhat like that. Not with people repeating lines for the whole auditorium, of course, but lots of saying one line and then pause for applause.