Re: Re: Eggcorn? disassemble

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

In a message dated 5/31/05 9:14:48 PM, dcamp at CHILITECH.NET writes:


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> > And he always spreads a smirky grin when he "instructs" us on word
> > meanings.
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> Or, he always smiles when he catches himself in a mistake.
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> I have noticed that the people who dote on Bushisms don't have a camera
> following them around 24/7. Maybe it's just as well. Or maybe we all are
> errorless when we speak off the cuff to a group. Let's see hands.
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> D
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It isn't only Bush, of course. Anyone in the public eye gets this kind of
close scrutiny. One gets the impression from all this that Bush is not very
bright--that, whereas Reagan just had the good sense to read the cue cards, Bush
strikes out on his own. So I guess we should be proud of his courage.

Eisenhower was another one who was frequently made fun of for his
press-conference manner of speaking,though, as I recall, the reporters didn't so much
question his diction as his syntax.

Clinton seems to have escaped either kind of scrutiny--though he certainly
got chastized for his overintellectualizing the meaning of "is." And, as I
recall, people made fun of Carter's accent (and his encounter with a killer
rabbit), and Johnson's accent as well as his swearing.