Re: Re: Eggcorn? disassemble

[Wilson Gray]

On May 31, 2005, at 9:26 PM, RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:

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> 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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> 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.
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> 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.

The more mature among us may recall what was supposedly a
(stereo)typical Eisenhowerism:

"I love, as it were, my country, so to speak."

-Wilson Gray

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> 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.
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