fox: linguistics-related IPA (linguistics)
fox ([personal profile] fox) wrote2007-08-23 11:07 pm
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hang on Daily Show what?

"Maybe he'd have gotten a PhD in linguistics", eh, Asif?

[not sure whether to laugh or cry]

[identity profile] jgesteve.livejournal.com 2007-08-24 02:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I think given the amount of verbal gaffes (nukular, strategery, etc.) that the President has made, he was mocking the President and his grasp of the English language (or language in general). I'm kinda wondering now, whether, had the media been as rabid as it now back in the 60s whether JFK's "I am a jelly doughnut" comment would have caused as much of a ruckus, or whether given his otherwise decent oratorical skills they would have allowed that minor foreign language slip-up to slide.