Why those communist politicians have to speak so slow?

drawer SG

Why whenever those mainland China spokesman or ministers announce something important,they have to speak n then pause 2 or 3 sec,then continue n then pause for 2,3 sec again.Like recently a high ranked ministers talk on the unification policy regarding Taiwan issue which they have just pass thru in their parliament,a minister do the same thing,talk then pause awhile,then continue n pause again.
I mean what the hell are they doing?Do those ministers or spokesman in China thought they are some kind of actor or something like that?They are acting like a 5 yrs old kids,damn stupid!!!This show that in a socialist country,politicians always grow up mentally slower than their own countrymen.

crazy monkey SG

they speak slowly so that stupid ppl like you can understand. Laughing

FireIce SG

it's a paralinguistic technique when making announcement......
bush oso speak then pause, then continue, if u notice, so does other western leaders.....
even our own GCT during national day rally....

u notice their tone of voice too......sometimes high, somtimes low.....sometimes look at script, sometimes look at camera, sometimes look at audience....

presidents and ministers go thru lessons to learn these techniques
it's a way to capture attention and to create an impact....making the announcement sound serious.....

crazy monkey SG

wah aunty so knowledgeable. Razz

robertteh SG

To get on national TVs in front of 1.3 billion relishing every second of that. In Singapore TV time is worth S$200 per sec prime time. In China it might be worth S$50,000 per sec prime time. Laughing

patriot SG

It's not the pauses that I find irritating. It's that they speak like bloody guniangs, with the high-pitched intonations and inflections. Are they like castrated or something?

Seriously though, any experienced speaker will tell you that pauses in speech are vital to convey important points across. It can be overdone. It takes an experienced person to master the pause in public speaking.

drawer SG

Ya,n the pause cannot drag too long,otherwise it will give ppl an impression that the person are "attention seeker".......i have seen bush n other political leaders speech,none are like those stupid communist Chinese leaders.

drawer SG

"crazy" ppl have the cheek to call other ppl stupid,this world have changed. Mr. Green

SnowFlag SG

FireIce is right.

In fact, the older the politician, the slower he will speak.

You dun find young politician speaking slowly, right? Mr. Green

crazy monkey SG

why u hate them so much ? what they do to you ? burn your hse down or confiscate all your property ? Laughing

vito_corleone SG

well unlike english..every chinese word counts and diff pronounciation and pitch can totally change the meaning of a word. politicians have to make sure that every word they utter is relevant to the topic and made very comprehensible and clear to the public, its not like its a stupid rap competition.

drawer SG

Nah,i just dont like communism or socialism,they dont care about human rights.Look at those mineworkers in China,how many accident have occur already n causing the deaths of how many lifes already,n many ppl have urge those politicians to look into the matters n raise the safety of those workers condition........
But everytime when there are accidents occur,those communist government just put up a show to mobilise the soldiers or first aid ppl to help save the mineworkers,but they didnt really give a damn about raising the safety working condition of those mineworkers,this are no difference than "slaughtering" them.And also,in a communist or socialist country,the government lack efficiency when dealing with country matters due to the fact that they lack strong opposition parties to monitor them.Lack of competition=Lack of efficiency.Look at our government,many months have passed n our government still havent decided whether to build a casino or not,while i heard that Bintan are going to build a casino as well.......
Bottomline is,i dont like socialism n the way they manage things,full of flaws.

vito_corleone SG

wake up to the real world my dear, there is no perfect system in the world. you think democracy is so perfect? do you think america and the supposedly peace loving western european countries never abused or tortured anyone? its all cover ups and propaganda..what you see is what the media, or rather the controller of the media wants you to see...singapore has its own fair share of human rights abuses if you take the time to browse through AI's site. we have at least 2 political exiles, francis seow and tan wah piow. not bad for a very tiny country with a population of 4 million and a "democratic" facade.

the.raven SG

people change pace and tone while talking so that they can achieve the effect they wanna achieve, stoopayd.

zenden9 SG

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The different between democracy and communist is democracy countries will push the blame to a small group of people,just like the case in Iraq torture of Iraqi prisoners,it is actually approved by the top lvl to torture them to get info but after expose.They push all the blame to small group of people and make them the scapegoat! While communist way of dealing is to say nothing or deny everything but continue to practise it! As they don't need to report or answer to their public.

drawer SG

I think u have missed my point here,when did i say democracy is perfect?What i am trying to say is democracy is a system which is better than socialism,thats all.Dont jump into conclusion for what i didnt say......And lastly,i have to write out the same sentence again as my previous post didnt submit successfully,my goodness,in socialist country even the forums screw thing up.

drawer SG

Oh,n there is another thing i wanted to mention.In a socialist or dictatorial country,there are alot of “xiao ren”,this type of ppl although seem to be very loyal to their “boss”.They can debate for their boss in the forum,the can bootlick their boss without any shame,but i can tell u all this,once their boss lose power or the country collapse,they will be the first to betray their boss.

Drain-V- SG

Guess you haven't been working in society before eh? What gives you the impression that these people don't exist in equal proportions in non "socialist or dictatorial" countries? Cool

Blueray SG

What makes you think that in democratic countries their human rights records are better?
United States and India... One is the world's no. 1 democracy and the other is the world's largest democracy but yet the human rights record of these two are worse than China's! They also don't care about human rights. Look at these:

American human rights violation:

http://free.freespeech.org/americanstateterrorism/AmericanStateTerrorism.html

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4078.htm

You should read how american coporations violate the rights of their workers:

http://alternet.org/story/21088/

India's human rights violation:

http://www.derechos.org/saran/india/

http://www.indiatogether.org/peace/kashmir/articles/indhr.htm

No offense but your views on socialism are childish and ignorant. Cool

CosmoKing SG

...and meybe easier for those sublimal messages/signals to be programmed into listeners (citizens...I am your father) with different thresholds from peabrain to numbskulls...times have changed from scare tactic to convincing... no more fire in the belly 'merdekka' harangues or mass hysterias/hypes of the 1950's that induced many male citizens to suddenly wake up in the morning to find severe shrinkage of their 'brother'.