Obama uses too many big words!

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/06/16/obama.speech.analysis/

After reading that, the song about magnets makes a lot more sense.

Americans are stupid. News at 11.

it's not just an urban legend?

Actually, saying they are stupid is maybe a little harsh. They are more like children.

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But he praised Obama's phrase "oil began spewing" as active and graphic.

I'll say! Makes me all hot and bothered...

quite apart from the fact that he uses the big word 'british' instead of the more accurate 'b' when referring to bp.

  On 6/17/2010 at 11:50 AM, loganfive said:

quite apart from the fact that he uses the big word 'british' instead of the more accurate 'b' when referring to bp.

so he says "british p?" isn't that a bit misleading?

  On 6/17/2010 at 12:08 PM, tht tne said:

  On 6/17/2010 at 11:50 AM, loganfive said:

quite apart from the fact that he uses the big word 'british' instead of the more accurate 'b' when referring to bp.

 

so he says "british p?" isn't that a bit misleading?

*sigh*

yes.... yes i suppose it is.

semi related (not really)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th3LtLx0IEM

do people really care about this? i mean, his choise of words? he's a 40+ swede, of course his english is lacking a bit (that thick accent of his makes me cringe).

small people

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"A little less professorial, less academic and more ordinary," Payack recommended. "That's the type of phraseology that makes you (appear) aloof and out of touch."

Phraseology? Is that like when you put words together and shit?

Pronoun analysis is also interesting.

Obama on language log

and for those who can understand french here is the same kind off stuff applied to the last presidential election's candidates.

damn smart communist bastard

  On 6/17/2010 at 10:43 AM, chenGOD said:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/06/16/obama.speech.analysis/

 

After reading that, the song about magnets makes a lot more sense.

Lol!

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He singled out this sentence from Obama as unfortunate: "That is why just after the rig sank, I assembled a team of our nation's best scientists and engineers to tackle this challenge -- a team led by Dr. Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and our nation's secretary of energy."

Maybe all the folks on this board from Europe can enlighten me, but there's a joke going on around here that goes something like this.

In Europe, people tend to vote for candidates whom they feel know more about running a country than they do. In Canada and the US, we vote for the guy whom we'd want to go down to the pub, shoot the shit and get plastered with.

(Certainly that was the case in alberta, we've had more than a few ..lush.. conservaCon premiers, at least one of which never finished high school )

yes and he always balances out the big words with 10,000 um's

  On 6/17/2010 at 3:07 PM, Fishtank said:

yes and he always balances out the big words with 10,000 um's

that's only when he doesn't have his teleprompter.

Wow, its a bit bad when a "Language Guru" wants the president to dumb down his speech. Its not even complicated anyway.

  On 6/17/2010 at 2:48 PM, jefferoo said:

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He singled out this sentence from Obama as unfortunate: "That is why just after the rig sank, I assembled a team of our nation's best scientists and engineers to tackle this challenge -- a team led by Dr. Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and our nation's secretary of energy."

why is this "unfortunate" or hard to read at all?

fucking media bullshit

  On 6/17/2010 at 12:35 PM, Charles Nelson Reilly said:

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"A little less professorial, less academic and more ordinary," Payack recommended. "That's the type of phraseology that makes you (appear) aloof and out of touch."

"Well, don't want to sound like a dick or nothin', but, ah... it says on your chart that you're fucked up. Ah, you talk like a fag, and your shit's all retarded."

  On 6/17/2010 at 3:36 PM, azatoth said:

  On 6/17/2010 at 3:07 PM, Fishtank said:

yes and he always balances out the big words with 10,000 um's

that's only when he doesn't have his teleprompter.

Obama's "um's" are a bit excessive, it's like listening to W without the accent. That said W still sounds exactly the same with a teleprompter.

It's a sad state of affairs when people are intimidated by the President using words that have more than 4 letters. Isn't the President supposed to be smarter than the average joe?

no, because we don't want them edjoomacated people with their liberal brainwashing running the show

"Obama's nearly 10th-grade-level rating was the highest of any of his major speeches and well above the Grade 7.4 of his 2008 "Yes, we can" victory speech, which many consider his best effort, Payack said.

"The scores indicate that this was not Obama at his best, especially when attempting to make an emotional connection to the American people," he added."

Jesus fucking Christ WTF language person dumbshit motherfucking cocksucking dildo in the ear soulless cockwaster fucking shit fuck fuck god damn cunt RRARRRGHGHG *smashes computer*

Really? The President should speak like a fucking retard so he can emotionally connect with the American people? And here I thought part of the problem was that we used to have someone in office who couldn't speak a cogent thought given 4 months, 3 copies of the OED, 4 grams of coke, and a vetted speechwriter. Now someone's given the Prez shit for actually stringing together enough words to say something, *GASP*, a 10th grader can understand?

God I fucking hate my country sometimes.

  On 6/17/2010 at 4:56 PM, T35513R said:

"Obama's nearly 10th-grade-level rating was the highest of any of his major speeches and well above the Grade 7.4 of his 2008 "Yes, we can" victory speech, which many consider his best effort, Payack said.

 

"The scores indicate that this was not Obama at his best, especially when attempting to make an emotional connection to the American people," he added."

 

Jesus fucking Christ WTF language person dumbshit motherfucking cocksucking dildo in the ear soulless cockwaster fucking shit fuck fuck god damn cunt RRARRRGHGHG *smashes computer*

 

Really? The President should speak like a fucking retard so he can emotionally connect with the American people? And here I thought part of the problem was that we used to have someone in office who couldn't speak a cogent thought given 4 months, 3 copies of the OED, 4 grams of coke, and a vetted speechwriter. Now someone's given the Prez shit for actually stringing together enough words to say something, *GASP*, a 10th grader can understand?

 

 

God I fucking hate my country sometimes.

I hate your country most of the time.

of course the company that did the survey was from....duh duh duh duh....Texas!

juss sayin.

I mean Ow my balls!