Will the English language survive??

[banana republican]

"The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country. "
George W. Bush

"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."
George W.Bush

"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any Governor, and
that one word is 'to be prepared'. "
George W. Bush

"I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in
the future."
George W. Bush

"The future will be better tomorrow. " George W. Bush

"We're going to have the best educated American people in the
world. "
George W. Bush

"I stand by all the misstatements that I've made."
George W. Bush

" We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a
firm commitment to Europe We are a part of Europe."
George W. Bush

"Public speaking is very easy."
- George W. Bush

"A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls."
George W. Bush

"We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur. "
George W. Bush

"For NASA, space is still a high priority."
George W. Bush

" Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children."
George W. Bush

" It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the
impurities in our air and water that are doing it. "
George W. Bush

"It's time for the human race to enter the solar system."
George W. Bush

[Taxloss]

1. Oh, it will survive.

Thankfully, Bush doesn't speak it.

[EST]

2. Not highly unlikely, prob'ly.

[Swamp Rat]

3. In history and linguistics books

Não

[crikkett]

4. Wait a second minute... Snopes says this is a hoax.

Don't beleive believe everything in your inbox:
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/candidate.asp

<snip>
As is apparent from the two examples listed above, the same list of bloopers is circulated about both the 2004 Democratic and Republican candidates for the presidency, in both cases offered as proof that each man is patently unfit to hold high office.

Yet these "proofs" are false, because all but one of the 2004 crop of groaners supposedly uttered by President George W. Bush or Senator John Kerry are statements either made by former Vice-President Dan Quayle or ones which have for years been attributed to him:
<snip- see link>

Only a lone entry in the 2004 Bush and Kerry lists was anything other than a Dan Quayle utterance or a Quayleism: "The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country." Though it is not a word-for-word match, it is close enough to a statement made by President George W. Bush in 2000 to be recognizable: "More and more of our imports come from overseas." (Although not all imports necessarily come from "overseas," when President Bush made this statement he was specifically referring to foreign oil imports, even though the two largest foreign suppliers of oil to the U.S. are the fellow North American countries of Canada and Mexico.)

[Bridget Burke]

5. Sounds plausible.

The quotations were twisted more charmingly than Bush usually manages. He's more stupidly incoherent.

[EFerrari]

9. It looks more like some things he did say with other

whoppers mixed in. Because some of them I remember hearing from his mouth or reading in the paper but others I don't remember at all.

[tocqueville]

7. list of DATED Bush quotes

it doesn't matter if the list above isn't accurate, the list below is sufficient :


"Thank you for having me here in this beautiful capital to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution." -Mixing up 1956 Hungarian Revolution (which is celebrated 23 October) with the revolutions of 1848, 15 March 2006
"We wouldn't go forward if we were concerned about the security of the United States of America." —Cabinet meeting, 23 February 2006
"You took an oath to defend our flag and our freedom, and you kept that oath, underseas and under fire." —Speech to Veterans of Foreign Wars, 10 January 2006
"I mean, there was a serious international effort to say to Saddam Hussein, you're a threat. And the 9/11 attacks extenuated that threat, as far as I—concerned." —Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 12 December 2005
"Wow! Brazil is big." —After being shown a map of Brazil by President Lula da Silva. November 7, 2005
"I think it's important to bring somebody from outside the system, the judicial system, somebody that hasn't been on the bench and, therefore, there's not a lot of opinions for people to look at." —On the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, Washington, D.C., October 4, 2005
"We look forward to hearing your vision, so we can more better do our job." —Gulfport, Mississippi, 20 September 2005.
"I'm also mindful that man should never try to put words in God's mouth. I mean, we should never ascribe natural disasters or anything else, to God. We are in no way, shape, or form should a human being play God." —Appearing on ABC's 20/20, Washington D.C., January 14, 2005
"I believe we are called to do the hard work to make our communities and quality of life a better place." —Collinsville, Illinois, January 5, 2005
"I refuse to be sucked into your hypnotheoretical arguments." —Indianapolis, Indiana, October 15, 2004
"I hear there's rumors on the uh (pause) Internets that we're going to have a draft." - Presidential Debate, St. Louis, Missouri, 8 October 2004
"I want to thank my friend, Sen. Bill Frist, for joining us today. … He married a Texas girl, I want you to know. (Laughter.) Karyn is with us. A West Texas girl, just like me. (More laughter.)" —Nashville, Tennessee, May 27, 2004
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." —Washington, D.C., 5 August 2004
"I want to remind you all that in order to fight and win the war, it requires an expenditure of money that is commiserate with keeping a promise to our troops to make sure that they're well-paid, well-trained, well-equipped." —Washington, D.C., 15 December 2003
"See, without the tax relief package, there would have been a deficit, but there wouldn't have been the commiserate — not 'commiserate' — the kick to our economy that occurred as a result of the tax relief." —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., 15 December 2003
"he Iraqis need to be very much involved. They were the people that was brutalized by this man." —Washington, D.C., 15 December 2003
"he best way to find these terrorists who hide in holes is to get people coming forth to describe the location of the hole, is to give clues and data." —Washington, D.C., 15 December 2003
"Justice was being delivered to a man who defied that gift from the Almighty to the people of Iraq." —Washington, D.C., 15 December 2003
"This very week in 1989, there were protests in East Berlin and in Leipzig. By the end of that year, every communist dictatorship in Central America had collapsed." —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., 6 November 2003
"America stands for liberty, for the pursuit of happiness, and for the unalienalienable right of life." —Washington, D.C., 3 November 2003
"s you know, these are open forums, you're able to come and listen to what I have to say." —Washington, D.C., 28 October 2003
"The ambassador and the general were briefing me on the — the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice." —Washington, D.C., 27 October 2003
"hether they be Christian, Jew, or Muslim, or Hindu, people have heard the universal call to love a neighbor just like they'd like to be called themselves." —Washington, D.C., October 8, 2003
"This is a country which recently was attacked by a suicider that killed innocent children and women, people that were celebrating in a restaurant." —Referring to Syria in Cabinet meeting, October 7, 2003 <1>
"Washington is a town where there's all kinds of allegations. You've heard much of the allegations. And if people have got solid information, please come forward with it. And that would be people inside the information who are the so-called anonymous sources, or people outside the information — outside the administration." —Chicago, Illinois, 30 September 2003
"e've had leaks out of the administrative branch, had leaks out of the legislative branch, and out of the executive branch and the legislative branch, and I've spoken out consistently against them, and I want to know who the leakers are." —Chicago, 30 September 2003
"I'm so pleased to be able to say hello to Bill Scranton. He's one of the great Pennsylvania political families." —Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, 15 September 2003
"I think war is a dangerous place." —Washington, D.C., May 7, 2003
"I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace." —Washington, D.C., June 18, 2002
"There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again." - Nashville, Tennessee, Sept 17 2002 <2>
"The true threat is whether or not one of these people decide, peak of anger, try to hold us hostage, ourselves; the Israelis, for example, to whom we'll defend, offer our defenses, the South Koreans." —Washington D.C., March 13, 2001
"I've coined new words, like, misunderstanding and Hispanically." —Radio-Television Correspondents Association dinner, Washington, D.C., March 29, 2001
"If the terriers and bariffs (barriers and tariffs) are torn down, this economy will grow." —Rochester, New York, January 7, 2001
"If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign." —Hilton Head, South Carolina, 16 February 2000
"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." —Saginaw, Mich., 29 September 2000 (referring to a dispute over Upper Klamath Lake)
"They misunderestimated me." —Bentonville, Arkansas, 6 November 2000
"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it." —Reuters, May 5, 2000
"I understand small business growth. I was one." —New York Daily News, 19 February 2000
"We ought to make the pie higher." —South Carolina Republican Debate, 15 February 2000
"It's your money. You paid for it." —La Crosse, Wisconsin, 18 October 2000
"The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case." —Pella, Iowa, as quoted by the San Antonio Express-News, 30 January 2000
"The administration I'll bring is a group of men and women who are focused on what's best for America, honest men and women, decent men and women, women who will see service to our country as a great privilege and who will not stain the house." —Des Moines Register debate, Iowa, 15 January 2000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushisms

[The Deacon]

10. Don't know about the quotes...

...didn't check Snopes. What I do know is I've stopped watching any public utterances by That Man some time ago - during the 2004 Debates to be precise. I frankly couldn't stand it because I felt sorry for the guy (ME! A YELLOW DOG DEMOCRAT!) He stutters and stammers, looks so uncomfortable. His attempts at humor are so pathetic (though the jokes could be somewhat humorous if delivered by someone with even a passing knowledge of public speaking) I can almost hear Karl Rove groaning in the background.
I mean, don't they require Speech at Yale? Or is the Bush sense of entitlement so great he doesn't bother to practice the speeches Karen Hughes writes for him?

[newyawker99]

14. Hi The Deacon!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[tocqueville]

6. most of the statements are tautologies, redundancies, pleonasms

malapropisms and vacuous truths...

Make the Pie Higher
I think we all agree, the past is over.
This is still a dangerous world.
It's a world of madmen and uncertainty
and potential mental losses.
Rarely is the question asked
Is our children learning?
Will the highways of the Internet become more few?
How many hands have I shaked?
They misunderestimate me.
I am a pitbull on the pantleg of opportunity.
I know that the human being and the fish can coexist.
Families is where our nation finds hope, where our wings take dream.
Put food on your family!
Knock down the tollbooth!
Vulcanize society!
Make the pie higher! Make the pie higher!

[DUHandle]

8. Bushisms aside

It’s changed, that’s for sure.

Entitlement now has an unpleasant connotation that seems to be linked to people getting something for nothing, when in fact those services have been paid for.

A tax increase is now not voting for a tax cut.

[baby_mouse]

11. Thank you, the english language will carry on without any problems

:mad:

[JCMach1]

12. My Indian, Arab, and Pakistani students... laugh at W all the time

for his inability to speak the language... :eyes:

[Igel]

13. It survived the Danes, it survived the Normans, it survived

American independence; it survived all sorts of things, such as dialectal fragmentation in England and moving in to mostly replace the various Celtic languages in the British Isles. Now it's continuing the process of breaking up into regional varieties. Will it reverse course? Probably not, in the long run. But we'll be dead in the long run, so our opinion doesn't much count.

It'll have daughters, and, no doubt, one or two will claim the wealth of literature as its legacy, much as Russian claims the literature from Rus', with Ukrainian and Belorusian quibbles mostly overlooked.

Germanic didn't survive, Indo-European didn't survive, Nostratic (if it existed as conceived of these days) didn't survive, and whatever preceded Nostratic didn't survive. On the other hand, at no point was it obvious that Nostratic was no longer Nostratic, and we were speaking Indo-European or Germanic or English.

[banana republican]

15. OMG: Children, it reproduces????

Do the Bushisms reproduce!?!? This could be the beginning of the end.

END REPRODUCTION FOR REPUBLICANS NOW!!!!!

[Igel]

16. Yes.

Great clouds of bushisms and their spawn can be seen cascading over the Texas hill country. When they reach critical mass, they'll invade. Either California or Venezuela, they haven't decided which has more oil.

Very scary.

[sweetheart]

21. and in the mean time, they advance in to new mexico

the spawn has taken new mexico and the city of london,
they plan to transcend their termination of the middle
class that they are destroying by absconding the bankruptcy.
Nobody is responisible, only god, and their god fucks people
for kicks.

[Hippo_Tron]

17. Umm, those are Dan Quayle quotes

There's a distinct difference between chimpy and Quayle. Dubya is always in doubt about what he is going to say. Dan Quayle was never in doubt, he was also never right.

[Nobody]

19. George Bush makes Dan Quayle seem smart ...

...or at least smarter than he seemed when he was VP.

[High Plains]

18. Si, claro que si.

[laruemtt]

20. when people "go missing"

and too many people "could care less," i'd guess it is doubtful the english language will "continue on." :crazy: