Re: Obama’s Use of Complete Sentences Stirs Controversy
- From: "Jerry Okamura" <okamuraj005@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:18:09 -1000
The purpose of speech is to convey a message. If you can successfully covey that messsage by not using what an english teacher would say is the proper use of that language, that is what counts in the end. You can use proper english, and still not be able to convey what you meant to convey, which should that happen, does no good at all to say that at least you used the proper form of english when you attempted to convey that message.
"Harry Hope" <rivrvu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:mrboi498rjq7i2ofutpqrgrkafo870b391@xxxxxxxxxx
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11/24/08
Obama's Use of Complete Sentences Stirs Controversy
By Andy Borowitz
In the first two weeks after the election, President-elect Barack
Obama has broken with a tradition established over the last eight
years through his controversial use of complete sentences, political
observers say.
Millions of Americans who watched Mr. Obama's appearance on CBS's
"Sixty Minutes" last Sunday witnessed the president-elect's unorthodox
verbal tic, which had Mr. Obama employing grammatically correct
sentences virtually every time he opened his mouth.
But Mr. Obama's decision to use complete sentences in his public
pronouncements carries with it certain risks, since after the last
eight years many Americans may find his odd speaking style jarring.
According to presidential historian Davis Logsdon of the University of
Minnesota, some Americans might find it "alienating" to have a
president who speaks English as if it were his first language.
"Every time Obama opens his mouth, his subjects and verbs are in
agreement," says Mr. Logsdon.
"If he keeps it up, he is running the risk of sounding like an
elitist."
The historian said that if Mr. Obama insists on using complete
sentences in his speeches, the public may find itself saying, "OK,
subject, predicate, subject, predicate-we get it, stop showing off."
The president-elect's stubborn insistence on using complete sentences
has already attracted a rebuke from one of his harshest critics, Gov.
Sarah Palin of Alaska.
"Talking with complete sentences there and also too talking in a way
that ordinary Americans like Joe the Plumber and Tito the Builder
can't really do there, I think needing to do that isn't tapping into
what Americans are needing also," she said.
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Satire, of course.
Harry
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