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And all the while I thought Dannie Boie was reaching out on his lonesome own
when he really got to talk like he did ... and be understood! Unfortunately
for the article's writer, he ignores the difference between the "English" (OKA
"Britlandese") and "American" (spoken by 5 or so times as many people as speak
Britlandese) languages. Then there are the American dialecticalities, one of
which emanates from Tejas. A<>E<>R
>From The Telegraph (UK)
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ISSUE 1715
Friday 4 February 2000
Bush image damaged by his slips of the tongue
By Ben Fenton in Washington
WITH nine months of public speaking left before the presidential election, the
oratory of George W Bush is coming under increasing scrutiny as he continues to
test the limits of the English language.
Like President George Bush, his father, the front runner in the Republican
presidential nomination race has already won a reputation for verbal
contortion, linguistic gymnastics and the accidental coining of words.
The governor of Texas can lay claim to having invented "tacular", "mential" and
"bariffs" and has begun to explore new forms of eloquence. He told children at
a New Hampshire school who were celebrating "Perseverance Month" that he was
happy to be joining them for "Preservation Month".
Proving it was not just a slip of the tongue, he added: "I appreciate
preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve."
Having described himself in a Texas re-election campaign as "the education
governor" he recently told an audience: "Rarely is the question asked - is our
children learning?"
Mr Bush, who was heavily defeated in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday, has
demonstrated evidence that his malapropisms are hereditary.
President Bush was renowned for putting syntax, vocabulary and meaning, not to
mention style, through a cerebral shredder before issuing his own memorable
remarks. "I mean, I think there will be a lot of aftermaths in what happened,
but we are going to go forward," he said after his candidate for a cabinet post
was rejected by the Senate in 1989.
His ability to trivialise the tragic was demonstrated when, on being shown
around Auschwitz, the then President said: "Boy, they were big on crematoriums
weren't they?"
He also showed the way for his son by combining two words in one. On live
national television he once refused to answer what he called a "hyporhetorical
question" and later refused to "hypothecate", presumably a combination of
hypothesise and speculate, on another reporter's inquiry.
His 53-year-old eldest son forges neologisms wherever he goes. He told an
audience that they lived in a "world of madmen and uncertainty and potential
mential loss". Last month, he risked the wrath of the animal rights lobby when
he spoke of a desire to "rip down terriers and bariffs".
Governor Bush has worked hard to eradicate his father's habit of rambling at
the podium during press conferences by using cue cards to answer even the most
"hyporhetorical" of questions. But he has not eradicated the vagueness of
expression that led President Bush to refer in less than inspiring tones to the
"vision thing". Both men are masters of not quite expressing thoughts.
Mr Bush Jnr told an interviewer: "When I was coming up, it was a dangerous
world and you knew exactly who they were. It was us versus them and it was
clear who them was. Today we are not so sure who the they are, but we know
they're there."
Father and son have recognised their shortcomings. "Some of the best of us
mispronounce words," George W told a classroom recently, echoing his father's
famous observation that "fluency in English is something that I'm often not
accused of".
But the difference between the two men is that President Bush was never thought
of as an unintelligent man, merely one who could not express his thoughts in a
way that made much sense to the rest of the English-speaking world. His son is
facing increasing questions about whether he has the basic qualities necessary
in a President, including intellect.
He has publicly called the East Timorese "East Timorians", the Kosovars
"Kosovians", the Slovenians "Slovakians" and the Greeks "Grecians".
In the light of growing doubts about his oratorical reliability, not to mention
brainpower, Republicans may not have been completely reassured to see yesterday
that he had called for support in South Carolina from the master of the
malapropism, Dan Quayle, a former vice-president.
It was Mr Quayle who gave America perhaps the greatest of its recent political
speeches when he said: "What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a
mind is being very wasteful. How true that is."
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