Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the by Jill Diamond YouTube channel,
where we're talking about the relationships between pausing,
keyword emphasis, and all of the flow techniques. Here.
We have a short and marvelous sentence from Tom Okonkwo.
I'm gonna learn how to say your name one day. And,
let's see if I can put the period there. There we go.
So this is how this sentence came in uh,
in the comments of one of my videos recently:
Your prediction was right on the money. Now,
this is interesting because you know, it's short.
And we could ask ourselves, is this the only way to say this?
Your prediction was right on the money I happen to love this
way. This is perfect. The prediction is so important.
So we're having that standalone.
And then the rest of the sentence speaks for itself was right on the money.
Now we also are using an expression. If it's right on the money,
it means was correct. A hundred percent right on the money. Uh,
now let's just see what would happen if we tried this a little
differently. Let me see,
let me see what you think. What would happen if we did this?
Your prediction was right on the money.
There might be a time where the words come out of your mouth
in such a way that you end up pausing on a structure word, like was.
Your prediction was, and you're thinking right on the money.
So one of the things you wanna know is that even though the rule says, hey,
let's not stop on a structure word, right?
Let's stop on the word prediction, much more interesting for the listener.
However, in real time, when we communicate,
there are times where we might actually stop on a word like this.
But the key is, if you do,
you have to own the silence that follows.
Your prediction was thinking, I'm thinking, I'm thinking,
right on the money. And then I say quickly, I remembered what I wanted to say,
right on the money. So I don't wanna rule this out and say, don't do this.
I want you to get into what's, what's real about this.
Could this happen? Yes.
And then the point is don't be shy when it comes to the
silent space between the thought chunks.
Now let's just take that out for a moment, and let's just focus, however,
on this. Your prediction,
your prediction, your prediction, right?
So I played with your prediction or your prediction.
Let's get that emphasis here, right.
Your prediction. And then let's get that stressed syllable.
Your prediction, holding that, vowel your prediction.
Then we're gonna pause.
And then let's look at how we can get some nice flow here. Okay.
We're gonna connect the right to the word on and we're gonna change that
/t/ to what? To a flap sound.
So I'm just gonna kind of cross that out and you're gonna say, right on,
right on right on. Very American. Right on, right on, right on the money.
Right on, right on, right on the money. Say that. Right on,
right on, right on the money. Good.
And then we're gonna change this to the schwa sound.
I'm just gonna use the letter a, the, the, the, instead of the money.
We're gonna say the money, the money.
Remember the schwa sound is in the middle of the mouth.
When we produce that sound,
all the other sounds can get to it quickly because it's in the middle of the
mouth, the money, the, the, the money.
Try saying the money and watch how much more muscle movement you need to use the
money, the money, the money.
Now go to the schwa, the money, the money.
It's so much easier to get from the schwa to the /M/ than the E to the
M the money, the money. The, the, the money,
the, the, the money. Okay, good.
So now you're gonna say for me was right on the money.
Was right on the money. What word am I emphasizing?
Where's the pitch changing? Was right on the money.
This one like that. Okay.
I'm not saying it was right in the money was right in the money.
Listening to how the right changes in pitch was right in the money.
Was right on the money.
Right is really important here as the focus word,
that's the expression. It was a hundred percent on the money.
Right on the money. All right, good.
So let's get you to say this.
Your prediction was right on the money.
Go ahead and say it. Great.
And then the other thing you could do if you want here is you can say.
Your prediction. You can reduce that instead of your prediction.
Your prediction was writing the money.
Great.
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