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DuHast
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  • Appeal to Emotion (1/3) ( recorded by Cats ), Canadian

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  • Appeal to Emotion (1/3) ( recorded by emchocolat ), Standard southern English accent

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  • Appeal to Emotion (1/3) ( recorded by catkerrfl ), United States

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    An Appeal to Emotion is a fallacy with the following structure:

    -Favorable emotions are associated with X.
    -Therefore, X is true.

    This fallacy is committed when someone manipulates peoples' emotions in order to get them to accept a claim as being true. More formally, this sort of "reasoning" involves the substitution of various means of producing strong emotions in place of evidence for a claim. If the favorable emotions associated with X influence the person to accept X as true because they "feel good about X," then he has fallen prey to the fallacy.

    This sort of "reasoning" is very common in politics and it serves as the basis for a large portion of modern advertising. Most political speeches are aimed at generating feelings in people so that these feelings will get them to vote or act a certain way. in the case of advertising, the commercials are aimed at evoking emotions that will influence people to buy certain products. In most cases, such speeches and commercials are notoriously free of real evidence.

Carioca
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  • Who are you ? ( recorded by pieces ), US

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    Hello my name's Rachel Davis.
    I’m 15 years old.
    I was born on March 2nd, 2005.
    I’m American.
    I live in Saratoga, California.
    My father's name is Philip. He's 48 and he is a bank manager.
    My mother’s name is Carla. She’s 45 and she is a nurse.
    I have one brother and one sister
    My brother’s name is Mike. He is 21 and he works in a fast-food restaurant.
    My sister’s name is Bella. She is 19. She is a student of medicine.
    I’m in year 11. Later I’d like to work in an international company or to be an air hostess.
    Actually I like foreign languages: French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese.
    I also like cooking pastries and watching series.
    I dislike vegetables, spiders and getting up early.
    On
    weekends I play tennis or go swimming. I sometimes go to parties with my friends and I also spend a lot of time on TikTok.

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  • Read "Natural speed please." ( recorded by pieces ), US

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    Native speakers of these languages range in number from very large, with hundreds of millions of speakers, to very small, with fewer than 10 speakers. The most popular language in the world is Chinese. More than one billion people in the world speak Chinese.
    Interestingly, English has fewer native speakers than Chinese, but there are about one billion learners of English all around the world. They learn English as an international language. About fifty percent of the world’s languages have fewer than 5000 speakers. In the beginning of the twenty-first century, 204 languages had fewer than 10 speakers and 344 languages had between 10 and 99 speakers. The 548 languages with fewer than 99 speakers make up nearly 8 percent of the world’s languages. We call them ‘endangered languages’. As the speakers of such languages grow old and die, their
    languages will die, too. All languages are really valuable, despite their differences. Every language is an amazing means of communication that meets the needs of its own speakers. It is impossible to imagine the world without language. Therefore, we should respect all languages, no matter how different they are and how many speakers they have.

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