The pickings are apparently so slim in the linguistics field that three University of Wisconsin-Madison linguists took on the conundrum of Sarah Palin's speech patterns. That's how it was reported, a conundrum, suggesting that they went off in search of a solution to a problem that didn't exist.We wonder if the scholars who researched Sarah Palin's speech patterns were financed by a federal grant...
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It turns out that Palin speaks the way she does because farmers from Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota moved to Alaska's Matanuska and Susitna valleys in the 1930s. Those farmers and their descendants settled Wasilla, Palin's hometown. I guess that's what passes for scholarly research in the linguistics field.
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The professors said that such informal speech is jarring to listeners attuned to hearing formal political talk and led many to question whether Palin was speaking that way for effect.
In other words, and without mention of Joe Biden's curious hybrid version of the English language, Palin was obviously a bumpkin incapable of the kind of formal grammar that we come to expect from our politicians.
These clowns couldn't be any more transparent. They might run a study on how often Barack Obama drops the "-ing" from words. Obama changes speech patterns depending on the crowd.
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All politicians cannot resist the disingenuous and patronizing dropping of the "-ing" because they think it makes them sound like they just came from Home Depot, where they bought plywood and chewed the fat with people in the checkout line.
The only difference between Palin and the rest of them is that she has probably been to a Home Depot.
- JP
Josh,
ReplyDeleteSoucheray has a pretty funny radio show too if you're interested. He'll probably talk about this column today: www.am1500.com/shows/garagelogic
Maybe it was stimulus money, at least 3 jobs created. There is no one person in recent history who has been so analyzed, from her toes, and toenails, knees, legs, all the way to her hair, and now her speech pattern. Wouldn't it have been nice if 0bama had been subjected to even one tenth of the examination that Sarah Palin has been subjected to. We actually knew more about Palin's reproductive system then we knew about 0bama on election night.
ReplyDeleteIf ONLY we should be frequently "jarred" out of what passes for regular "formal" political-talk!
ReplyDeleteLinguistic studies of her speech patterns. That's really it. The Left's utterly perverted obsession with Palin knows no limits. May they all painfully and spontaneously combust by the millions. I want to hear the Great Sizzle.
(One ~can~ dream...)
A simple wiki search would have shown these oh-so-smart twits how wrong they were. The 1935 settlement landed in Palmer, began their lives around Palmer, not Wasilla. Wasilla was started because of the railroad that served the mines farther north.
ReplyDeleteThe twits have managed to do one of two things, either they have pizzed off the folks from Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota... or they have given folks from those states more reason to identify with Sarah.
My own opinion is if you are going to 'serve' the common folk, what better servent than one of the common folk?