Tuesday, August 26, 2008
The Problem with Political Speechwriters
Not only are we going to make every sentence eighteen words too long so that when it is read out loud it must be chopped up in unnatural places before the speaker runs of breath, but we will also finish as many sentences as possible with a triad like this next one so that our declarations will sound authoritative, well-reasoned, and final. We are going to use passive verbs at every opportunity, even when an obvious active verb is at hand, and we will fill each sentence with fluff, redundancy, and repetition to help us reach our target word counts.
Posted by Dave on 08/26 at 09:03 PM
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Language and Rhetoric • Miscellaneous • Rants • Politics • (1) Comments • (0) Trackbacks • Permalink
