On 4/30/07, Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was struck by a couple of things. First of all, despite the image of top CIA men as Yale-educated patricians, Tenet struck me as a rather unpolished individual. It was the first time I had ever heard him speak. Instead of saying "going to", he habitually says, "gonna"--like "We were gonna do what was necessary to stop the terrorists." He has an undergraduate degree from Georgetown and a Masters from Columbia, for what that's worth.
supposedly, the "Castillian lisp" arose because people were imitating the king. Maybe Tenet's "gonna" comes from imitating Dubya. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
