"Obamism"

[Victor Steinbok]

"Out-building" also seems to be a transcription error. I'll relate both
to the source where I picked up the quote.

     VS-)

On 2/7/2011 3:13 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
> 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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