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The Power Of Speaking Ladylike
Science Daily ^
| 4-25-2007
| Springer
Posted on 04/25/2007 3:01:00 PM PDT by blam
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posted on
04/25/2007 3:01:06 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
Point of order: one cannot “speak ladylike.”
“Ladylike” is an adjective. It cannot modify a verb. I don’t care what the illiterate they’re paying to sorta write headlines says.
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posted on
04/25/2007 3:03:07 PM PDT
by
Xenalyte
("A cat can give birth to kittens in the oven. That don't make 'em biscuits." - Quanell X)
To: blam
But, even though Hillary Clinton is a politician herself, she still follows, to some extent, the historic designation of women’s language as the language of the non-powerful. "YOU F**KING JEW B**TARD!"
To: blam
she [Hillary] still follows, to some extent, the historic designation of women’s language as the language of the non-powerful. Do you mean like these quotes?
"Aww don't feel noways tired. I've come too faarrr from where I started frum. . . . Aww could have listened all day luung."
Or, maybe:
when I walk into the Oval Office in January of 2009, I'm afraid I'm gonna lift up the rug and I'm goin' to see so much stuff uh-nder thar . . . You know, what is it about us always havin' to clean up after people?
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posted on
04/25/2007 3:10:18 PM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: martin_fierro
But, even though Hillary Clinton is a politician herself, she still follows, to some extent, the historic designation of women’s language as the language of the non-powerful. I guess that would also explain Webb Hubbell's decision to "roll over one more time" for her.
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posted on
04/25/2007 3:17:06 PM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
("The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."-Karl Marx)
To: blam
The Power Of Speaking Ladylike The writer of this should be drawn and quartered. Adjectives ... not Adverbs.
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posted on
04/25/2007 3:18:21 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(Killing all of your enemies without mercy is the only sure way of sleeping soundly at night.)
To: Centurion2000
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posted on
04/25/2007 3:18:59 PM PDT
by
Xenalyte
("A cat can give birth to kittens in the oven. That don't make 'em biscuits." - Quanell X)
To: Xenalyte; blam; Tax-chick; Constitution Day
Point of order: one cannot “speak ladylike.”
“Ladylike” is an adjective. It cannot modify a verb.
To: blam
It is claimed that Hillary Clinton ‘is such a fine teller of stories’ that ‘her rhetorical intervention may well have saved her husband’s presidency’³.Translation: She can lie with the best of them
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posted on
04/25/2007 3:31:25 PM PDT
by
Conservative4Ever
(Hoping my 'carbon footprint' has crushed a few liberals)
To: martin_fierro
A truly funny book. I read it on a flight and everybody was staring at me because I kept laughing uncontrollably.
For some reason, I didn’t like his other books as much; but the first one was genuinely funny.
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posted on
04/25/2007 3:31:39 PM PDT
by
livius
To: blam
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posted on
04/25/2007 3:31:58 PM PDT
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
To: Xenalyte
Huh.... Ladylike and Hillary are two words I never thought I hear together.
Hillary is not now, has never been, nor ever will be - a lady.
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posted on
04/25/2007 3:32:08 PM PDT
by
AFreeBird
(This space for rent. Inquire within)
To: blam
Betcha the ‘pubbies talk more ladylike than the Dems!
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posted on
04/25/2007 3:58:17 PM PDT
by
Grut
To: martin_fierro
Too true. It’s an unfortunate failing of our language that there’s no such word as “ladylikely.” (Pause for obvious jokes ...)
You’re left with “like a lady” or “in a ladylike way,” and neither one really has the zing of an -ly adverb.
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posted on
04/25/2007 4:27:48 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("And he had turned the Prime Minister's teacup into a gerbil.")
To: Xenalyte; Centurion2000
I too enjoy the language and am a long time member of the grammar police here.
I have no use for those awful speling police though.
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posted on
04/25/2007 4:55:08 PM PDT
by
Graybeard58
(Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: Tax-chick
Ladylike...
Audrey Hepburn
hubba-hubba ;o)
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posted on
04/25/2007 4:55:45 PM PDT
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: Liberty Valance
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posted on
04/25/2007 6:14:00 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("And he had turned the Prime Minister's teacup into a gerbil.")
To: blam
Hillary Clinton ‘is such a fine teller of stories’
No shit?
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posted on
04/25/2007 6:25:25 PM PDT
by
ryan71
(You can hear it on the coconut telegraph...)
To: Liberty Valance
I was born in ‘66 and I can tell you the women from that era were THE HOTTEST because they were ladies.
The fashion, the speech, the body language, everything.
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posted on
04/25/2007 6:32:26 PM PDT
by
ryan71
(You can hear it on the coconut telegraph...)
To: Graybeard58
I too enjoy the language and am a long time member of the grammar police here. I have no use for those awful speling police though.
I, too, enjoy the language and am a long time member of the grammar police here.
I have no use for those awful spelling police though.
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