IMO, a speech (even at universities) should be geared to not put the students to friggen sleep, and capture their attention (if this is possible, lol, just KIDDING!).
An active and good presenter in college are priceless.
Agreed, but I don't know what it had to do with my post
Anyways. Linguistics, really interesting stuff.. but we have the most boring lecturer ever... seriously.. when we were learning how you can make compounds of words of different (or the same) word class and the result will be a word of a different word class (which is really a simple thing to understand and .. well.. duuh) he went through like almost all the possible combination as examples..