Talk:Extemporaneous speaking

Someone with more knowledge of recent extempers needs to update the "Recent" section; the current group is haphazardly put together.

The list of recent extempers was not encyclopedic information - ego stroking is not the purpose of wikipedia. It is now gone.

Your external link is dead, here is a better one: http://www.cla.purdue.edu/communication/pdf_doc_etc/com_114/chap10.doc

The recent section is now just relating to national champions and I can update it for a while as competitions progress! (this was TGercken) — Preceding unsigned comment added by TGercken (talk • contribs) 16:54, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

Forensic?
What does extemporaneous speaking have to do with the investigation of crime? Is there really such a thing as "college forensic competition"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by TDHofstetter (talk • contribs) 13:59, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

Forensics is the name generally given to speech and debate competition. It doesn't have anything to do with crime. It simply shares a name. (this was TGercken)

“Forensics,” from the Latin “forensus” more or less ment “forum” or a place to search for the truth. The ancient Greeks used to gather in forums to hear debates as a form of entertainment and to seek truth though argument. Modern crime investigation uses the term to seek truth though scientific analysis of evidence, hence the use of the term by both law enforcement and speech and debate competitors --Ryanx7 (talk) 22:11, 17 August 2022 (UTC)

Widely occurring?
Is this something that occurs widely throughout the whole world? I have lived in New Zealand, Australia and the UK, but have never heard about extemporaneous speaking. Maybe it helps to indicate the geographical distribution of this activity in the article.

Like most of speech and debate it occurs around the world but most of the major competition is in the US. I added a line to competition about it. (this was TGercken)

Speech competition 2019-20
The three selected competitors •Anusha Siddiqui d/o Raheel Ahmed Siddiqui •Taimoor Shah s/o Ghalib Shah •Ghania Khan d/o Hussain Malik are to face The great speaker Murad Ali Shah for an interview to further continue their race in the competition as they will be soon given titles of Young Speakers of Karachi. All the best to these young youth. Shams kalhoro (talk) 16:07, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

Extemporaneous
Extemporaneous 2600:4041:56B8:2600:2C59:64C5:C8D3:524A (talk) 00:45, 28 February 2023 (UTC)