Language & Grammar discussion

Got a link to a politician mangling the language? How about engaging in doublespeak? Malapropisms? Other serious offenses?

Keep track here and mock at will!

I'll start. Here the NY TIMES highlights some of the more mystifying lines from Sarah Palin's endorsement speech for Donald Trumpery. Oh, my! A veritable cornucopia!

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/21/us/...

This will be a very long thread, NE. Entertaining and sad, no doubt.

Wonder what she was smoking.

It's a combustible mix for language when you pair Palin and Trumpery.

Move the letters around and you get plain. She is anything but , as for Trump, don't you think he was aptly named? He is one to blow his own horn .

Trump even looks like Humpty Dumpty, "When I use a word, it means exactly what I say it means, neither more nor less." I personally am looking forward to the great fall part of the story.

Humpty Trumpty?

And the Frumpety

All the king's bullshit and all the king's men won't be able to put that clown together again...

When you mix up the letters in different words they sometimes spell different words. Ironic, isn't it?

I'd like to recommend the books of a former professor of mine, who specializes in this topic.

Doublespeak: From Revenue Enhancement to Terminal Living : How Government, Business, Advertisers, and Others Use Language to Deceive You

This work (and its sequels) came out before the free-for-all, fly-by-night self-publishing trend. He knows his stuff.

Let's get the best catch phrase first:

Right to Life
Unborn Child
Death Counselors
Death Doctors