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Saying the obvious so well everyone thinks it was never obvious at all.
means The skill of speaking or writing in a way that is fluent, persuasive, and graceful enough to move an audience.
from From Latin 'eloquentia,' built on 'eloqui' — 'to speak out,' from 'ex-' (out) plus 'loqui' (to speak, the root that also gives us 'loquacious' and 'colloquial'). So at bottom it just means the words got all the way out — but the Romans, being connoisseurs of rhetoric, elevated 'speaking out' into the art of speaking unforgettably.
- not vocabulary
- big words often hide it, not show it
- timing matters more
- the right word late lands flat
- silence counts
- pauses do half the persuading
- ancient obsession
- Greeks graded citizens on speaking skill alone