Chimpy's special phoenetic spellings at UN -- Could explain his pronunciation...

[Sparkly]

http://news.aol.com/story/_a/goof-reveals-phonetic-guide-for-bush/20070926090409990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001

Goof Reveals Phonetic Guide for Bush
By Matt Spetalnick,
Reuters
Posted: 2007-09-26 14:56:31
NEW YORK (Sept. 26) - How do you keep a leader as verbally gaffe-prone as U.S. President George W. Bush from making even more slips of the tongue?

When Bush addressed the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, the White House inadvertently showed exactly how -- with a phonetic pronunciation guide on the teleprompter to get him past troublesome names of countries and world leaders.

The White House was left scrambling to explain after a marked-up draft of Bush's speech popped up briefly on the U.N. Web site as he delivered his remarks, giving a rare glimpse of the special guidance he gets for major addresses.

It included phonetic spellings for French President Nicolas Sarkozy (sar-KO-zee), a friend, and Zimbabwe leader Robert Mugabe (moo-GAH-bee), a target of U.S. human rights criticism.

Perhaps typos in his "special guidance" cause him to pronounce other words oddly.

"Terroristststs"
"INsurance"
"Nucular"
"Rackies"
"Murcan"

Others?

(Edit: Maybe they do his entire SOTU speeches that way... "Mah Fella Murcans. Thu stay dove the yoonun iz strowung.")

[terisan]

1. He pronouces these types of words as though his speech objective is pronunciation not meaning. nt

It is as though his reward is not how well people will understand his meaning but how well he pronounces the words.

[Zookeeper]

2. Exactly! He always looks like he's expecting a pat on the head...

and a cookie when he pronounces a big word. :D

[Arkansas Granny]

3. If you watch him, you will see that he almost always smirks after

he says a big word. It's almost like he's saying, "Showed you, didn't I?".

[Zookeeper]

4. He does!!! I've noticed that, too.

He is so ridiculous. How can anyone see him otherwise?!?

[madokie]

6. that got a chuckle

that buffoon
he's sure lowered the bar for what is expected of a pResident from now on

[madokie]

5. The best explaination I've read yet

[Lars39]

7. Ron Burgundy with nukes.

:yoiks:

[Sparkly]

8. Today's Typo: "Childrens Do Learn....?"

:shrug: