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Main Forums => Politics => Topic started by: Perd Hapley on November 28, 2010, 01:42:39 AM
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Does the Obama say "the thing is is" a lot?
For years now I've been noticing the increasing prevalence of the grammatically unmotivated doubling of is, as in "The thing is is that..." This is not a matter of insufficient education or literacy; President Obama does it so regularly it could be considered part of his idiolect.
http://www.languagehat.com/archives/003660.php
I only happened upon this site, trying to find what out what "rusé" means, in some J. Fenimore Cooper novel.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rus%C3%A9
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One of my peeves is using the word "which" in place of "and", or, not fully forming the end of the sentence following what would be a proper use of "which".
[barf]
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Does the Obama say "the thing is is" a lot?
Can you define the meaning of "IS"? ~William Jefferson Clinton
On a side note, Firefox spell check still has Obama as a misspelled word. Maybe that's a sign of the current Presidency.
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Misspelled word... misspent presidency...
You say tomato.
DD
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Can you define the meaning of "IS"? ~William Jefferson Clinton
On a side note, Firefox spell check still has Obama as a misspelled word. Maybe that's a sign of the current Presidency.
Heh! So it does.
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odd, mine has oBAM!o as correct. :laugh: