Intonation and Speaking

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Intonation noun - The act of singing in a monotonous tone.

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Speaking and intonation are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Speaking" instead a noun "Intonation".

Nearby Words: intone, intoned, intoning

Speaking noun - The utterance of intelligible speech.

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Intonation and speaking are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Intonation" instead a noun "Speaking".

Nearby Words: speak, speaker

A case of intonation, rather than actual words: In The Ten Commandments, God, speaking through the Burning Bush, does call out Moses's name twice.

Source: Beam Me Up Scotty / Live-Action Films
Things go south quickly when Douglas forbids her to bring her laptop to the first face to face meeting with the Italian man and her improvised Italian is so awful that no subtitles are even needed to see that she's just speaking English words with a pseudo-Italian tone and intonation.

Source: My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Watch any interview with Combs and you'll hear that his natural speaking voice sounds nothing like the idiosyncratic intonation and slimy tone of his "acting voice" that he uses in every single role, regardless of whether he's playing an intentionally creepy character or even a heroic badass.

Source: Creator / Jeffrey Combs

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