Recently read "The Girl of The Limberlost" by Gene Stratton Porter. Wonderful book.
Sunday, July 27, 2008
The overwhelming and biased coverage of Barack Obama's trip this past week prompts me to comment.
Did you catch this particular quote? He said he would be president "...for the next eight to ten years..." (When was the last time a presidential candidate arrogantly presumed out loud that he'd win a second term? I believe this may be unprecedented behavior in a campaign season.)
Our Constitution allows a president at most, two four year terms.
Perhaps he can't be bothered with such trifling details...or perhaps all this focus on Europe has caused him to forget that in America, a term is not five years long.
Yet the press has ignored the comment. Imagine them ignoring such a comment from a Republican.
Barack is constantly messing up his facts, there are now websites dedicated to tallying Obama's errors; and the list grows daily. Never mind that he has the most liberal voting record in the United States Senate.
Am I majoring in minors? No. Look what they did to Dan Quayle because he misspelled potato.
Tonight I found the following, - which I will cut and paste here:
Potatoe and other English spelling irregularities
In New Spelling (circa 1910) "potato" is spelled P O E T A E T O E
the silent e was used as a long vowel marker. /ou / was always spelled [OE]
If OUGH stands for O as in Dough
If PHTH stands for T as in Phthisis
If EIGH stands for A as in Neighbour
If TTE stands for T as in Gazette
If EAU stands for O as in Plateau
Did you catch this particular quote? He said he would be president "...for the next eight to ten years..." (When was the last time a presidential candidate arrogantly presumed out loud that he'd win a second term? I believe this may be unprecedented behavior in a campaign season.)
Our Constitution allows a president at most, two four year terms.
Perhaps he can't be bothered with such trifling details...or perhaps all this focus on Europe has caused him to forget that in America, a term is not five years long.
Yet the press has ignored the comment. Imagine them ignoring such a comment from a Republican.
Barack is constantly messing up his facts, there are now websites dedicated to tallying Obama's errors; and the list grows daily. Never mind that he has the most liberal voting record in the United States Senate.
Am I majoring in minors? No. Look what they did to Dan Quayle because he misspelled potato.
Tonight I found the following, - which I will cut and paste here:
Potatoe and other English spelling irregularities
In New Spelling (circa 1910) "potato" is spelled P O E T A E T O E
the silent e was used as a long vowel marker. /ou / was always spelled [OE]
Truespel, another reform orthography, spells POE TTAE TOE almost the same way
the double T indicates that the stress is on the 2nd syllable.
RES (Restored English Spelling) spells it POATAYTO.
RES uses positional spelling, the [owe] sound in the terminal position is spelled O.
This works for SILO and GAZEEBO but not for follow [faalo].
The trouble with spelling is that there are too many orthographic options.
The sounds of English are not linked with specific predictable spelling patterns.
Here is another alternative spelling of potato:
If OUGH stands for O as in Dough
If PHTH stands for T as in Phthisis
If EIGH stands for A as in Neighbour
If TTE stands for T as in Gazette
If EAU stands for O as in Plateau
then POTATO could be spelled:
GHOUGHPHTHEIGHTTEEAU
Yet when it comes to constitutional law that specifically refers to the number of years one may serve, eight just doesn't equal ten. Words matter...the numbers matter.
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