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Eloquent
Eloquence is fluent, forcible, elegant or persuasive speaking. Eloquence or eloquent may also refer to: * ''Eloquence'' (Bill Evans album) * ''Eloquence'' (Oscar Peterson album) * ''Eloquence'' (Wolfgang Flür album) * ''Eloquence'', Internet and Wikipedia pen name of Erik Möller Erik Möller (born 1979) is a German freelance journalist, software developer, author, and former deputy director of the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), based in San Francisco. Möller additionally works as a web designer and previously managed hi ... (born 1979), German freelance journalist, software developer and author * Eloquent (The SWORD Project), a Bible research and study open-source application, part of The SWORD Project See also * Fluency, the property of a person or of a system that delivers information quickly and with expertise. {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eloquence
Eloquence (from French ''eloquence'' from Latin ''eloquentia'') is fluent, elegant, persuasive, and forceful speech, persuading an audience. Eloquence is both a natural talent and improved by knowledge of language, study of a specific subject to be addressed, philosophy, rationale and ability to form a persuasive set of tenets within a presentation. "True eloquence," Oliver Goldsmith says, "Does not consist ... in saying great things in a sublime style, but in a simple style; for there is, properly speaking, no such thing as a sublime style, the sublimity lies only in the things; and when they are not so, the language may be turgid, affected, metaphorical, but not affecting." Eloquence in antiquity The word eloquence itself derives from the Latin roots: ''ē'' (a shortened form of the preposition ''ex''), meaning "out (of)", and ''loqui'', a deponent verb meaning "to speak". Thus, eloquence is to speak fluently and understand and master language so as to employ a graceful ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eloquent (The SWORD Project)
The SWORD Project is the CrossWire Bible Society's free software project. Its purpose is to create cross-platform open-source software, open-source tools—covered by the GNU General Public License—that allow programmers and Bible society, Bible societies to write new Bible software more quickly and easily. Overview The core of The SWORD Project is a cross-platform Library (computing), library written in C++, providing access, search functions and other utilities to a growing collection of over 200 texts in over 50 languages. Any software based on their Application programming interface, API can use this collection. JSword is a separate implementation, written in Java (programming language), Java, which reproduces most of the API features of the C++ API and supports most SWORD data content. The project is one of the primary implementers of and contributors to the Open Scripture Information Standard (OSIS), a standardized XML language for the encoding of scripture. The software ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eloquence (Bill Evans Album)
''Eloquence'' is an album composed of songs played by jazz musicians Bill Evans and Eddie Gomez between the years of 1973 and 1975. It was released posthumously in 1982 on Fantasy Records. Background and reception The album consists of four duets with Eddie Gomez and four solo pieces. Four songs ("Gone With The Wind", "Saudade Do Brasil", "All Of You" and "Since We Met") and the medley ("But Not For Me" / "Isn't It Romantic" / "The Opener") were recorded while rehearsing in the Fantasy Records studio in Berkeley in 1974–75. The last piece is a brief medley of two Cy Coleman tunes: "When In Rome" and "It Amazes Me". They were recorded live in 1973 at one of Evans's favorite West Coast venues, Shelly's Manne-Hole jazz club in Hollywood. The remaining songs, "In A Sentimental Mood" and "But Beautiful" were recorded live at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1975. Scott Yanow wrote of the album: "Being a musical perfectionist, it is a bit doubtful if he would have wanted this music to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eloquence (Oscar Peterson Album)
''Eloquence'' is a live album by jazz pianist Oscar Peterson and his trio, released in 1965. ''Eloquence'' was the Oscar Peterson trio's last album with drummer Ed Thigpen. Reception Writing for AllMusic, critic Scott Yanow wrote "The music heard during this "live from Copenhagen" concert is excellent... Peterson is in particularly strong form on "Misty," "Django," a cooking "Autumn Leaves" and "Moanin'." Track listing #"Children's Tune" (Oscar Peterson) – 1:09 #"Younger Than Springtime" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) – 5:29 #"Misty" ( Johnny Burke, Erroll Garner) – 6:41 #" Django" (John Lewis) – 7:21 #"The Smudge" (Peterson) – 5:07 #" Autumn Leaves" (Joseph Kosma, Johnny Mercer, Jacques Prévert) – 6:42 #"Moanin'" (Bobby Timmons) – 6:07 #"Lovers' Promenade" (Peterson) – 2:26 Personnel *Oscar Peterson – piano * Ray Brown – double bass *Ed Thigpen – drum The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbost ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eloquence (Wolfgang Flür Album)
Eloquence (also known as Eloquence: Complete Works) is a solo album by German electronic musician and ex-Kraftwerk member Wolfgang Flür Wolfgang Flür (born 17 July 1947) is a German musician, best known for playing percussion in the electronic group Kraftwerk from 1973 to 1987. Flür claims that he invented the electric drums the group used throughout the 1970s. However, pa .... It was announced by Cherry Red Records on 1 October 2015 and released on 16 October 2015. An expanded re-release of the album, titled Eloquence Expanded, was announced on 29 February 2020, with a 100 copy limited edition signed release before its full release on 6 April 2020. Track listing References External linksEloquence on Discogs 2015 albums {{2010s-electronic-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erik Möller
Erik Möller (born 1979) is a German freelance journalist, software developer, author, and former deputy director of the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), based in San Francisco. Möller additionally works as a web designer and previously managed his own web hosting service, myoo.de. As of 2022, he was VP of Engineering at the Freedom of the Press Foundation. Published work Möller is the author of the book ' ("The secret media revolution: How weblogs, wikis and free software change the world"). In the book, Möller discusses the development of a journalistic equivalent to the open-source movement in citizen media and blogging, though pointing out that most blogs do not compete with mainstream media. The book was first published in 2005 by Heinz Heise and a second edition was published in 2006, with updated and revised chapters. A review in ''Berliner Literaturkritik's'' saw practical tips but claimed the book focused too much on technical details. Möller's book is cited in the 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
