Speaking standardized English became "You speak so beautifully" or "articulately".
"You speak so badly," he snaps at his daughter Judith.
Agriculture and ranching, of which you speak so glowingly, are the prime causes of the cerrado's endangered status.
Argh! Go on, finish that sentence; you mean you speak so well for a brown person," she said.
They would say, 'You speak so by the book,' or 'You speak like an old person.' " Ms. Keshavarz said that she did not set out to make a movie that was political, at least in any overt or conventional sense.
It looks like a party trick when they find out that you speak so many languages, especially when they realise that it's not a question of just knowing a few phrases.
"When I go to Butlins with my cousins," says 15-year-old Alistair Crocker, "they always ask me, 'Why do you speak so intelligently?' " And how do people react when they discover that the youngsters are from the Steiner school?
Last night you spoke so compellingly about the "small business owner who dreams of turning a good idea into a thriving enterprise". But unfortunately, entrepreneurs are still largely invisible to policy makers.
Even if you're not meeting the interviewer in person, dress for the interview anyway, stand up when you speak, so your voice is strong, and smile.
Your writing may follow the way you speak so that it sounds natural, but remember that the spoken word is often much more casual than written messages.
