"Obamism"

[Ben Zimmer]

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>
> 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".

Transcription error. Comes around 8:35 in the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmKgcep7N34

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