I have to write a sales pitch about an invention but I have to be Othello. What kind of language should I use?

What a creative assignment! I am assuming you already know what product that your sales pitch will be about. So, I will try to help you with Othello's language. Look at Othello's early speeches and then again at the end of the play, in Act 5. Othello's speech is different from other characters in his frequent use of natural imagery and references to war. For instance, he speaks of the feats of "broil and battle," and

antes of vast and deserts idle,

Rough quarries, rocks, and hill whose heads touch heaven. (Act 1, scene 3)

Othello also tells stories or anecdotes. He likes to tell an "unvarnished tale." For instance, when asked how he and Desdemona fell in love, he narrates the story of his meetings with her, his telling her of his adventures, and her reactions. Even in Act 5, when Othello gives a speech before he kills himself, he tells a story of a "malignant and turbaned Turk" whom he executed. In each of these stories, Othello's language is eloquent but simple. His sentences can be long, but they are often compound sentences rather than complex. He is direct and forthright, without irony or puns. It is only when he is under Iago's influence that his language changes to include animal imagery, puns, and sarcasm.

Othello likes to use hyperboles to express his strong emotions:

Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul

But I do love thee! (Act 3, scene 3))

and

Oh, that the slave had forty thousand lives! (Act 3, scene 3)

And for emphasis, he interjects his speech with such exclamations as "Zounds" and "Death and damnation" and "Oh!" Other favorite words are "monstrous," "horror," "perdition," "foul." Another speech characteristic is repetition. Note how many times he repeats "handkerchief, " for instance. And, you can't go wrong if you incorporate several alliterations within your sales pitch, such as "mighty magic" and "flood and field."

Remember that Othello is passionate and powerful. If he loves something or someone, he loves with intensity and hates with equal intensity. He prefers actions to words, and he does not joke around.

Good luck with this assignment.

Is there a word/phrase for "unperformant"?

As a software engineer, I need to sometimes describe a piece of code as something that lacks performance or was not written with performance in mind. Example: This kind of coding style leads to unmaintainable and unperformant code. Based on my Google searches, this isn't a real word. What is the correct way to describe this? EDIT My usage of "performance" here is in regard to speed and efficiency. For example, the better the performance of code the faster the application runs. My question and example target the negative definition, which is in reference to preventing inefficient coding practices. Answer This kind of coding style leads to unmaintainable and unperformant code. In my opinion, reads more easily as: This coding style leads to unmaintainable and poorly performing code. The key to well-written documentation and reports lies in ease of understanding. Adding poorly understood words such as performant decreases that ease. In addressing the use of such a poorly ...

nouns - what do you call the person who passes the trophies to the prize giver/presenter?

The person who gives out the trophies to the winners are called award presenters. So what do u call the person who passes the trophies to the presenter? Thanks!

Is 'efficate' a word in English?

I routinely hear the word "efficate" being used. For example, "The most powerful way to efficate a change in the system is to participate." I do not find entries for this word in common English dictionaries, but I do not have an unabridged dictionary. I have checked the OED (I'm not sure if it is considered unabridged), and it has no entry for "efficate". It does have an entry for "efficiate", which is used in the same way. Wordnik has an entry for "efficate" with over 1800 hits, thus providing some evidence for the frequency of use. I personally like the word and find the meaning very clear and obvious when others use it. If it's not currently an "officially documented" word, perhaps its continued use will result in it being better documented.

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