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Look, I know Bush makes a lot of mistakes in his speech. And, while I still maintain that many of his errors in English are signs of a learning disability rather than stupidity, I appreciate that it can be fun to mock them. Okay. But please. Grow up, and stop mocking valid and common dialectal differences as mistakes. That's petty, and a bit ignorant. You all know people who say "Afriker" or "idear", and if you don't, you've at least heard of people who do. Unless you believe that r-adding is really a sign of unintelligence/ignorance (are are willing to do a large scale study to prove it), please, stop.
Also, please stop mocking the guy's coordination. That's another thing that doesn't indicate stupidity. Oh, so he fell off a bike. I can't even RIDE a bike. Oh, he choked on a pretzel. I can barely eat with silverware, and that is a fact. I'm not stupid. While Bush's intelligence is debateable, it makes all of us look bad when the only "facts" you can point to to prove this are "well, he's uncoordinated and he doesn't speak like I do". Try pointing out his foreign policy (or lack thereof), or his stubbornness, or his assumptions that we can't remember what he's said from one speech to the next. You know, something that's actually important.
Oh, and please stop comparing Bush to a chimp. That's insulting to the chimp.
Also, please stop mocking the guy's coordination. That's another thing that doesn't indicate stupidity. Oh, so he fell off a bike. I can't even RIDE a bike. Oh, he choked on a pretzel. I can barely eat with silverware, and that is a fact. I'm not stupid. While Bush's intelligence is debateable, it makes all of us look bad when the only "facts" you can point to to prove this are "well, he's uncoordinated and he doesn't speak like I do". Try pointing out his foreign policy (or lack thereof), or his stubbornness, or his assumptions that we can't remember what he's said from one speech to the next. You know, something that's actually important.
Oh, and please stop comparing Bush to a chimp. That's insulting to the chimp.
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Date: 2004-10-09 10:33 am (UTC)And thankies. I'm blushing here.
As for why I brought this specific issue up, I'm very linguisticly minded (I've been studying it on my own for about half my life now) and very much dislike the idea that Standard = Correct. That's just not the case. Where coordination comes in, I have none of it. I chalk this up to dyspraxia (commonly found alongside asperger's), but the end of it is that I couldn't tie my shoes until I was 12, I couldn't zip my coat (that is, start it zipping) until I was 8, and I still have problems using silverware and writing neatly. My handwriting looks very immature. It's a very touchy subject with me, and it pisses me off to hear people say things about somebody's coordination as though that's proof of low intelligence.