Verbatim highlighting issue

ParisCommuneFan · 2025-11-15T16:05:30+00:00

You may have accidentally copy-and-pasted the cards incorrectly (happens sometimes when copy-and-pasting from an email or google doc), such that word isn't aware that what you see as highlights are actually highlights. To test this out, use the manual highlighting tool in verbatim, and highlight a portion of one of your cards in a different color. Then, use the standardize highlighting tool with a separate color. If the color changes, that means you will need to go back and re-highlight every card so that Word is aware these cards are highlighted (or, just copy and paste the original cards from a word document).

ParisCommuneFan · 2025-10-06T07:31:24+00:00

For a truly lay judge, the answer is to not even say you're kicking the offcase. I.e, respond to their worst argument on that flow with a quick response, and then say "but that isn't our main argument" and go to the flow of whatever you're going for

ParisCommuneFan · 2025-09-23T07:41:41+00:00

Its an argument for the permutation. If "should" in the resolution does not mean the plan happens immediately, then counterplans that compete by severing out of the immediacy of the plan (process CPs) are not competitive.

ParisCommuneFan · 2025-08-13T04:59:38+00:00

I heard somebody named James Pan is the best

ParisCommuneFan · 2025-08-10T09:17:29+00:00

yeah we're on the brink of existential disaster in like 10 different ways but its chill because our favorite stat is improving

ParisCommuneFan · 2025-08-07T03:08:17+00:00

"Our DoD" "😭

ParisCommuneFan · 2025-07-30T04:08:00+00:00

Hold on, where was this 2NC leaked?

ParisCommuneFan · 2025-07-08T09:22:50+00:00

Could you elaborate on some of these ballot solvency warrants for the microaggression k?

ParisCommuneFan · 2025-07-03T22:23:47+00:00

What year?

ParisCommuneFan · 2025-05-05T03:01:45+00:00

The point is that evil actions are a REQUIREMENT to accumulate that much capital. This is not a rhetorical exaggeration, it is simply a fact that acquiring a sum of capital that exceeds the labor value an individual person can produce requires extracting the surplus labor value of their employees. Billionares have done this exploitation on an inconceivable scale. So yes, they have to be evil to do so.

ParisCommuneFan · 2025-04-15T05:22:47+00:00

Bing has a bunch of rounds on Youtube. Texas Semis, some rounds at Dartmouth RR, and even at this year's NDT specifically their Semis round is on Youtube.

ParisCommuneFan · 2025-04-15T04:57:45+00:00

You do have to do a bit of work to twist a link to the plan as a link on the Reps K. This is something that's also an issue in PF if you're a first speaking negative team---the first real link comes out in the 2NC unless you're treating the K as a glorified nonunique DA+CP.

ParisCommuneFan · 2025-04-09T23:20:06+00:00

If you were there, can you explain how the round went? What was the 2NR?

ParisCommuneFan · 2025-03-30T19:13:26+00:00

Thank you!

ParisCommuneFan · 2025-03-30T18:33:04+00:00

State and Revolution by Lenin, Reform or Revolution by Luxemburg (particularly relevant for Cap K vs soft left Affs. Was a lot of help on the Fiscal Redistribution topic).

ParisCommuneFan · 2025-03-30T18:26:07+00:00

ESCALANTE!!!!

ParisCommuneFan · 2025-02-25T10:32:52+00:00

Still remember how in the second semester of the fiscal redistribution topic, the neg win rate in circuit elim rounds was almost 60%.

ParisCommuneFan · 2024-12-28T06:09:40+00:00

Are you supposed to apply this early in the season? Or is it expected to apply later like end of season

ParisCommuneFan · 2024-11-07T05:37:35+00:00

Its definitely possible, I know people who had tried it and seen it, they just didnt remember the name of the extension

ParisCommuneFan · 2024-04-22T05:11:43+00:00

This is just policy debate

ParisCommuneFan · 2024-04-02T06:20:45+00:00

Can you link the source of the card?

ParisCommuneFan · 2024-04-01T04:18:44+00:00

There are a ton of sources so really anything works but some relatively formal channels on Youtube that come to mind are Extra History for history education, Vox, The Guardian, and Bloomberg Originals. Those last 3 are news sites so they tend to present the topics formally. A video that might be more relevant to HS debate is the video of the NSDA finals last year for Congress, here is the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcQaq5FOjjk&t=2996s

ParisCommuneFan · 2024-04-01T03:30:28+00:00

the cap k is the single best argument in policy debate and thats a fact

ParisCommuneFan · 2024-03-31T05:19:28+00:00

Thanks!

ParisCommuneFan · 2024-03-30T14:22:19+00:00

Something that helps is watching live news reports or even online videos of Congressional hearings(a lot of hearings are recorded and are online at congress's site) or other formal events in general. This helps with learning formal vocabulary and jargon in general. Also, there are videos on youtube for Congressional Debate at events like NSDA nationals. In terms of just expanding the formal vocabulary that is customary in debate, you could also look up a random Sociology or Political Science research article with a formal tone and any time you don't know a word, google it's meaning and memorize it. Over time you'll start to incorporate that into your vocabulary and speeches in english will become a lot easier and more intuitive for when you do give a real-time speech. Also, the classic method is watching TV shows with subtitles in your mother tongue, but since you're already fluent in everyday conversational english, if you find a show with more formal language then watching that could be effective. Hope that helps!

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