字怎麼被說出口
看那個字離開嘴巴的樣子：每個音有沒有被做完整。
noun · C1
The way a person says words out loud — how clearly and how exactly each sound is made when they speak or sing. Good diction means listeners catch every word without having to work at it.
咬字
核心畫面
Diction can be pictured as a word on its way out of a person. Latin dictio means a saying, a word. Hold that moment and you can look at it two ways: how the word is shaped as it leaves the mouth, and which word was picked to leave in the first place. English uses one name for both, because both are about the word as an act of somebody's, not as an item in a list.
「diction」可以想成「一個字正要離開一個人」的那一刻。拉丁文 dictiō 就是「說出來的話」。停在那個瞬間，…更多收起
「diction」可以想成「一個字正要離開一個人」的那一刻。拉丁文 dictiō 就是「說出來的話」。停在那個瞬間，可以往兩邊看：一邊是這個字在嘴裡被做得清不清楚，一邊是這個字當初為什麼被挑出來。英文用同一個名字蓋住兩件事，因為兩件事講的都是「某人把話說出來」這個動作，而不是字典裡那個字。From the word’s history
Wiktionary traces diction to Latin dictio, 'a saying, speaking, uttering', from dico 'to say', and notes that the modern senses of word choice and clarity grew on top of the older sense 'a word or phrase'.
Wiktionary 記載 diction 來自拉丁文 dictiō（說、話語），字根 dīcō 是「說」；它也指出「用字選擇」和「口齒清晰」這兩個現代意思，是後來從「一個字、一句話」那個舊義長出來的。
Wiktionary entry 'diction' (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:185691651), supplied in the evidence packet.
Two branches
挑了哪些字
同一個瞬間往前推一步：在字出口之前，它是被選出來的。
noun · C1
The words and phrases a writer or speaker chooses, and the effect those choices have. Talking about diction means asking whether the words are plain or grand, old or modern, gentle or harsh, and what that does to the reader.
用字遣詞