As all trainees, regardless of linguistic background, work to acquire a discipline-specific professional register, they must do so in three primary modes: free-form speech in conversation; scripted speech in presentations; and formal writing for manuscripts, abstracts, and other written products.
Whenever you see politicians in a relaxed or stressful situation, beyond the usual teleprompter speeches and scripted photo ops, you learn something about those charged with making life and death decisions.
Mr Yanukovych, who often stumbles over his words and prefers scripted speeches to project himself, told voters he would abstain from a public debate to avoid Ms Tymoshenko's "torrents of dirt and evil".
The speech was originally scripted to include the phrase "colonial anachronism", but was toned down at the last minute, perhaps in recognition of political sensitivities after a summer of London and Madrid at loggerheads over Gibraltar.
I asked Mr. Trump if that was his intention and he said no, that it was only about the judge and Mrs. Clinton's speech was too scripted ("phony") to have much effect.
This time round, his stump speech is still scripted to death, to the extent that once you have heard him deliver it a few times you can mouth along to it like a pop song.
Mr. Xi, the keynote speaker, delivered a long, tightly scripted speech that made no reference to Mr. Obama and concentrated on the theme of Chinese economic overhaul at home, and the need for China to have the Asia-Pacific region as a partner abroad.
Still, three months after taking office, he has spoken only once to the public -- not deviating from a carefully scripted speech he was taped reading for state television -- and the Congolese know only the bare facts about their new president: He grew up in Tanzania and came to Kinshasa in 1997 when his father led a Rwandan- and Ugandan-backed rebellion against the late dictator Mobutu Sese Seko.
First Apple recorded more than 20 hours of a "new voice talent" performing tons of scripted speech: books, jokes, answers to questions.
