Posted on 08/01/2011 9:01:36 PM PDT by lbryce
Top 10 Obama Gaffes
* "Special Olympics"
* Obama's Blockbuster Gift to Gordon Brown
* Obama's Nancy Reagan Problem
* Obama's Socialist Secret?
* Obama's "Muslim" Mishap
* Obama's Presumptuous Presidential Seal
* Obama's "Bitter" Bungle
* Obama's Word Game
* Obama's Popularity Problem
* Obama Plays Dumb
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Attempt to bring the Olympics to Chicago.
One could almost argue that they are different languages or at least evolved from different "languages" -- but I'm not a German philologist (though my friend is -- I've just asked her by mail!)
however, I'm 100% sure Obambi didn't know this when he opened his yap...
Some may not seem so bad, but some reveal that Obama is trying to be somebody he isn’t.
For example, he was at a baseball game, talking to the announcers. Obama said he was a big White Sox fan. The announcer asked who his favorite player was, and he couldn’t name a single player.
He also said he went to games at COMINSKEY Park, pronounced with an “N” in it. But every real baseball fan knows the Sox played at COMISKEY Park, correctly pronounced with no “N”.
It seems insignificant, but it shows that he’s trying to pretend he’s a big baseball fan when he’s not. Why does he do that?
Cuz he throws like a 6 yo girl?
Personally, I have less than zero interest in baseball, but would NEVER try and pass off some knowledge of the game as these idiots tried...........
Yep, Hillary said that her favorite American League team was the Yankees, when she first ran for the Senate in New York.
She explained that when she grew up in Chicago, she was a Cubs fan. But the Cubs are National League, so she needed an American League team to root for. And allegedly she was a Yankee fan in Chicago growing up, with the Yankees being her favorite American League team.
There was no mention of why she didn’t root for the White Sox, since the White Sox are Chicago’s American League team, if the issue is that she wanted to have a favorite team in the American League.
Oh my gosh. Michelle’s got some VPL issues there. Those pants are also a bit tight which magnifies things.
Where are the Yute Flash Mobs to attack that gay guy on the poofy bike?
Time flies like an arrow; but fruit flies like a banana.
What gets me is this - if these same gaffes were done by Bush, Reagan, and as they were done by Dan Quayle, the state-run, lame-stream, media would be all over it like a cheap suit. Obama says this stuff and the media looks the other way. That is what pisses me off.
The smartest president in history has trouble remembering what year it is.
“Teutonic shift”
BFLV
corpse men....
Probably Hillary’s favorite team when she was a kid was the Yankees, because she didn’t know the names of any other teams.
well, technically there is an Austrian dialect -- the High German spoken by Austrians is closer to the Bavarian, Swiss SchwiezerDeutsch, Leichtenstein dialect and sounds quite different from Northern/Standard German.My friend just gave me a long detailed answer (have pinged sunkenciv, odds, t-c and blam as I think this may be very informative -- I know I'm storing it for later referal!)
One could almost argue that they are different languages or at least evolved from different "languages" -- but I'm not a German philologist (though my friend is -- I've just asked her by mail!)
i think they can be classified as two dialects of the same language. there are no linguistic critearias which can be used to know whether you can consider 2 varieties as 2 different languages or 2 dialects of the same language, as there is no method to measure in a precise way the linguistic distance of 2 (or more varieties).
intelligibility is a very vague and subjective criteria. more important criterias are:
- political (does the community define its language as an independant language?)
- does the language have a written version (a "roof")?
example: swiss german is often considered as not intelligible by germans; but at the same time it's considered as a german dialect (since there is not a standardisised written swiss german version). it seems that dutch is linguistically more or less as far away from standard german as swiss german is. it is consdered as an independant language since it has its own standardisised version.
another example are the balcan languages serbian/croatian/bosnian: it seems that the speakers of theses languages can easilly understand eachother but because of all those political issues they are considered as different languages (not dialects).
there is a linguist who sais that in the germanophonoc countries people consider their varieties more as dialects of the same language while in the slawic countires there is a tendency to speak about two languages even if they are quite close to eachother (eg. russian and belarusian).
voilà. it's a difficult question. (and it was actually topic of my final exam in linguistics :))
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