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Gamboler Posted 6 years ago
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Speak up, start talking

Which one sounds more menacing?

You'd better speak up! or You'd better start talking!

(The interrogator of the Spanish Inquisition questioning one of the prisoners.)

  

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Which one sounds more menacing? You'd better start talking! But if it is the Spanish Inquisition, perhaps you should give it more of religious and historical tone.

— Clive

  • Which one sounds more menacing?
  • You'd better start talking!
  • But if it is the Spanish Inquisition, perhaps you should give it more of religious and historical tone.
  • As written, you sentence sounds to me more like an old gangster movie.
  • Clive
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Which one sounds more menacing?

You'd better start talking!

But if it is the Spanish Inquisition, perhaps you should give it more of religious and historical tone. As written, you sentence sounds to me more like an old gangster movie.

Clive

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Thanks, Clive.

How about "In the name of ***, you'd better start talking!"

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