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Why don't we ever hear people say, "I'm going to give a speech in sacrament meeting next week"?

I have never, in all my years of believing and attending, heard that word (speech) used in this context.

zeezrom wrote:Why don't we ever hear people say, "I'm going to give a speech in sacrament meeting next week"?

I have never, in all my years of believing and attending, heard that word (speech) used in this context.

Same reason they say "I know the church is true," when they really mean "have faith," or "believe."

It's just an idiosyncratic cultural thing.

I'm wondering if the word speech sounds too scholastic or something. The word "talk" has a sort of informal tone to it.

Why did I post about this? People are dying from starvation and I'm posting about the word "talk".

zeezrom wrote:I'm wondering if the word speech sounds too scholastic or something. The word "talk" has a sort of informal tone to it.

Why did I post about this? People are dying from starvation and I'm posting about the word "talk".

Because every time you post I mail a Snickers Bar to a hungry kid in Africa.

Here is another Mormon word thing that I didn't know about until a never-mo pointed it out.

Activity.

Everything is an activity! We don't have events, seminars, dinners, outings or whatever. We have activities.

(I actually had to ask my friend what they call it when they do something as a family. LMAO)

zeezrom wrote:I'm wondering if the word speech sounds too scholastic or something.

Yes, and Mormons hate to sound scholastic...hence their unforgivable pronunciation of the word foyer.

aranyborju wrote:

zeezrom wrote:I'm wondering if the word speech sounds too scholastic or something.

Yes, and Mormons hate to sound scholastic...hence their unforgivable pronunciation of the word foyer.

Wait...should we say "foy-yay?"

zeezrom wrote:Why don't we ever hear people say, "I'm going to give a speech in sacrament meeting next week"?

I have never, in all my years of believing and attending, heard that word (speech) used in this context.

All faiths have their words and culture. The LDS are no different from the rest. The born againers have their own words too. As do the catholics. A speech is different from a talk. A speech is formal...a lecture should be formal and educational. But a talk is when a person has something to say to friends.

aranyborju wrote:
Yes, and Mormons hate to sound scholastic...hence their unforgivable pronunciation of the word foyer.

They say it different in New York and in New Jersey.

just me wrote:

Wait...should we say "foy-yay?"

I'm past feeling on the subject.