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  • Staggering incomprehensibility

    This is truly frightening. It seems she assumes her listener shares her own inability to grasp a complete thought. Perhaps she thinks us so stupid and hungry that she need only scatter crumbled fragments on the pool of dialogue and she'll be able to rip this election right from the waters before we recognize her chum for the fisherman's lure it ...
    Posted to The Good Word by SplendidMarbles on October 15, 2008

  • Advertising, Milton Erickson and the art of persuasion

    The author seems to think that in order to communicate one should be litteral and accurate. This ignores probably 95% of human communication. Advertisers know that in order to convince people you have to use language in odd ways: for instance, pairing up a car brand with words for sexual prowess. It may not make sense but it influences people at ...
    Posted to The Good Word by pbraham on October 3, 2008

  • Re: Diagramming Palin's Sentences

    don't be so hard on her. english is her second language. her native tongue is pageant speak... see:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww Biden-my-time.
    Posted to The Good Word by rudybed on October 2, 2008

  • Waste of ink..Who cares!!

    Accent has nothing to do with this race. It makes no sense to me that someone would be ''hung-up'' on an accent. This is the USA, the ''Melting Pot''. There are people with different accents all over the USA. Big Deal!! Their accent has NOTHING to do with their intelligence. Here's an idea: Educate ourselves on the ''key issues'' ...
    Posted to The Good Word by UnbrokenEagle on October 1, 2008