"Obamism"

Victor Steinbok aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM
Mon Feb 7 19:41:13 UTC 2011


Nothing out of the ordinary, just an interesting sentence structure:

> I'm the same guy. My practical focus, my common-sense focus right now
> is how to we out-innovate, out-educate, out-building, out-compete the
> rest of the world?

I don't expect another cottage industry to rise out of that one. I
haven't seen the interview so I don't know if "how to we" is correct.
But it's a possible screw-up from being caught in transition between
"how to do" and "how do we".

     VS-)

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