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Language guru: Obama speech too 'professorial' for his target audience
CNN ^ | June 16th, 2010

Posted on 06/16/2010 11:38:36 PM PDT by TaraP

President Obama's speech on the gulf oil disaster Tuesday night was written at a 10th-grade level, which, according to analysts, may have gone over the heads of many in his audience...

Tuesday night's speech from the Oval Office of the White House was written to a 9.8 grade level, said Paul J.J. Payack, president of Global Language Monitor. The Austin, Texas-based company analyzes and catalogues trends in word usage and word choice and their impact on culture.

Though the president used slightly less than four sentences per paragraph, his 19.8 words per sentence "added some difficulty for his target audience," Payack said.

He singled out this sentence from Obama as unfortunate: "That is why just after the rig sank, I assembled a team of our nation's best scientists and engineers to tackle this challenge -- a team led by Dr. Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and our nation's secretary of energy."

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To: TaraP
Oh yeah... I almost forgot... and FUbo!

LLS

21 posted on 06/16/2010 11:52:09 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer ( WOLVERINES!)
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To: TaraP

That’s how 0nama is approaching every single thing. In his mind, he knows more than anybody else about everything. So, if other people don’t accept his line of thinking, he thought they got him wrong, and “Let me be clear...”


22 posted on 06/16/2010 11:53:02 PM PDT by paudio (Are you better off today than in 2006, when the Democrats took over the Congress?)
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To: TaraP

Amen!!!!!

LLS


23 posted on 06/16/2010 11:54:22 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer ( WOLVERINES!)
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To: TaraP

“Obama’s nearly 10th-grade-level rating was the highest of any of his major speeches and well above the Grade 7.4 of his 2008 “Yes, we can” victory speech, which many consider his best effort, Payack said.”

So - you mean - if you speak closer to the level of an adult, you lose his biggest supporters?


24 posted on 06/16/2010 11:55:36 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: TaraP
President Obama's speech on the gulf oil disaster Tuesday night was written at a 10th-grade level, which, according to analysts, may have gone over the heads of many in his audience

That tells me that most of those who successfully completed a high school education decided not to tune in.
25 posted on 06/16/2010 11:55:40 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: TaraP

Well...we are the “small” people, after all. lolol

We will see just how “small” we are in November!


26 posted on 06/16/2010 11:56:57 PM PDT by dixiechick2000 (Remember November...I can see it from my house!)
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To: TaraP

Thats a nice way of saying that no one knows what the hellz hes talking about, and nor does he. Because hes just reading off of a prepared script written by someone even dumber than him.


27 posted on 06/16/2010 11:57:09 PM PDT by ketelone
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To: ransomnote

I guess he is seeking those 5th graders votes!

Looney Tunes in the White House...


28 posted on 06/16/2010 11:58:56 PM PDT by TaraP (He never offered our victories without fighting but he said help would always come in time)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Yep, G D A, just a bunch of ignorant fools with a leader who is too brilliant to be understood by them.

You know folks, we don’t deserve him. He is so above us.

So step down Obambi. It’s breaking my heart how misunderstood you are. /s


29 posted on 06/16/2010 11:59:17 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (06/15/2010 Obama's Shame-Wow address...)
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To: ransomnote

“So - you mean - if you speak closer to the level of an adult, you lose his biggest supporters?”

I’d say so...lol


30 posted on 06/16/2010 11:59:35 PM PDT by dixiechick2000 (Remember November...I can see it from my house!)
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To: TaraP

So now it’s America’s fault.


31 posted on 06/17/2010 12:00:20 AM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out ( <<< click my name: now featuring Freeper classifieds)
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To: TaraP

LMAO


32 posted on 06/17/2010 12:00:53 AM PDT by Trillian
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To: TaraP
Here's how he should have delivered it to the sheeple:


33 posted on 06/17/2010 12:02:40 AM PDT by thecabal (Destroy Progressivism)
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To: DB
People didn’t like Obama’s speech, therefore the people were to ignorant and/or stupid to understand it...

Now compare that to the storyline of The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Anderson.
34 posted on 06/17/2010 12:03:29 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: TaraP

Flesch-Kincaid grade level of Obama’s speech: 8.62


35 posted on 06/17/2010 12:03:31 AM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: TaraP
He singled out this sentence from Obama as unfortunate: "That is why just after the rig sank, I assembled a team of our nation's best scientists and engineers to tackle this challenge -- a team led by Dr. Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and our nation's secretary of energy."


36 posted on 06/17/2010 12:03:42 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (I Don't Want Obama to Kick Ass. I WANT HIM TO GET OFF HIS ASS!!!!)
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To: TaraP

Ah...see...the analyst notes that suggesting the oil spill is worse than a hurricane because hurricanes cause damage within minutes or days compared with long lasting damage caused by oil spills...might have been...how do you say....’insensitive’ to Katrina survivors because New Orleans lost 1/3 of it’s population and is still rebuilding.

Why DID Oboma choose to include hurricanes? Was it to quell unfavorable comments comparing his response to that of George Bush re Katrina. So Zero is saying that George is perceived as handling Katrina better than Obama is handling the oil spill only because...Katrina was ‘easier’?


37 posted on 06/17/2010 12:03:57 AM PDT by ransomnote
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To: DoughtyOne

I think you’ve hit the nail square on the head.

He’s too good for us. So,...since we are so undeserving of such great leadership...he should step down, and leave us with the leaders this great country deserves.

Now...who would that be? Hopefully, another Reagan...another Thatcher. The letter “P” comes to mind.


38 posted on 06/17/2010 12:05:26 AM PDT by dixiechick2000 (Remember November...I can see it from my house!)
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To: TaraP

one can only cry; I agree with the premise of the article in the excerpt in the context that the american public probably cannot deal with a narrative that complicated in a positive fashion.


39 posted on 06/17/2010 12:06:36 AM PDT by WoofDog123
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To: TaraP
He singled out this sentence from Obama as unfortunate: "That is why just after the rig sank, I assembled a team of our nation's best scientists and engineers to tackle this challenge -- a team led by Dr. Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and our nation's secretary of energy."

Given we are at day 50 plus, this 'sentence' sure is over my head. From the 'beginning' BamBam did everything he could by picking the smartest and brightest to 'tackle'.... how does one tackle 'oil'?

40 posted on 06/17/2010 12:07:45 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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