Did Mr. Bush really say...

"This was looked at by all kinds of lawyers?"

I think the English department at Yale must consider committing seppuku every time Mr. Bush opens his mouth.

If you really want to be proper, please add the two asterisks after Bush**.

NGU.

..and I have come to prefer "His Emperor Chippy von Pissypants", m'self...

He has this "folksy" way of mangling the english language. His supporters explain this "he speaks like us." This man is not "us". It is an act or he has suffered brain damage that caused him to forget an education most of us could never afford. He is a Yale educated priviledged elitist who has never worked a day in his life. The same people who support him here in Texas, would have kicked his lily white ass if they met him when he was in his twenties. He was a cheerleader for Yale, for christ sake.


AValdoux

ones that have read the Constitution and know when the law is being broken...

Harriet and Alberto

in which case it could be true.

lawyers.

I hear he said, "In The White House, we do things the law way."

You know, in the same way that "a lot of" does not necessarily mean "a batch of" or "shipment of" but "many", and "a bunch of" often has nothing to do with bananas or grapes. Then there's my mother's "oodles" and aunt's "skads" ...

The English department at Yale stopped being dominated by prescriptivist snobs a long time ago and recognized social and geographic variation, and even variation by register. There's the social fact of what's acceptable (the same social facts that decry the use of AAEV and Carter's drawl) and accepted in neutral speech in formal situations, and then there's the huge stylistic range from hundreds of dialects of English, both American and not. Many of us like to wallow in the stylistic and geographical variety.

Then again, I find that I can't understand people when they don't use negation "properly", and it irritates me when they don't realize that individuated nouns require "fewer" and not "less".

Do you find that those that don't pronounce their final "r" as a rhotic are cretins?

But I DO find Mr. Bush to be a dickless piece of shit. All kinds of shit. I hope that's helpful.