Sarah Palin Minces WordsForgot to wear her diagramRemember grammar diagrams? (Non-Baby Boomers are probably scratching their heads at this point.) No? Well, check out these grammar diagrams from
Slate.com that deconstruct Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin's public speaking solicisms from her televised debate and Katie Couric interview (thanks go to my friend
Reggie Harris's blog for posting this first!).
Read: "
Diagramming Sarah" by Kitty Burns Florey at Slate.com
(Ms. Florey is the author of the wonderful
Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences, 2006.)
Idiotic PentameterSee also Hart Seely transformation of Sarah-speak into free-form poetry: "
The Poetry of Sarah Palin". It becomes obvious that Palin is fluent in
Fargo-ese.
Some highlights:
"On Good and Evil"It is obvious to me
Who the good guys are in this one
And who the bad guys are.
The bad guys are the ones
Who say Israel is a stinking corpse,
And should be wiped off
The face of the earth.
That's not a good guy.
(To K. Couric, CBS News, Sept. 25, 2008)
"Haiku" These corporations.
Today it was AIG,
Important call, there.
(To S. Hannity, Fox News, Sept. 18, 2008)
"On Reporters"It's funny that
A comment like that
Was kinda made to,
I don't know,
You know ...
Reporters.
(To K. Couric, CBS News, Sept. 25, 2008)
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