Re: Article: Analyzating Bush's Grey Matter

[Guest guest]

Being that I'm also a Texan, Bush talks normal to me. It's the

Yankees that sound so strange. They add " ers " to lots of their

words.

Unforntunately, most of the press isn't from Texas, and so they

think the Pres speaks funny.

He just talks plain normal to us Texans, and it's one of the reasons

why we like him. He's easy to understand.k

> MARCH 12, 2004

>

> AFFAIRS OF STATE

> By Stan Crock

>

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/mar2004/nf20040312_0969_db056.htm

> The President's tendency to mangle words and syntax may be

due to an undiagnosed language and hearing disability, say some

experts

> Ever wonder why President Bush says " nuculer " when he

means " nuclear " or " subliminate " when he means " subliminal? " Or why

he mixes up perseverance and preservation? Why does he mangle the

English language often enough for Slate Editor Weisberg to

produce three books of Bushisms such as " I know how hard it is for

you to put food on your family. "

[Guest guest]

We all know from Sponge Bob's friend Sandy that you " don't mess with

Texas! "

Suzi I hope that article didn't offend you (that was written by a

correspondent for Business Week from the magazine's Washington

bureau and posted by a Canadian) Texans and Yankees...and the rest

of the world. Speech and language impairments and learning

disabilities come in all languages/accents. The way I see it -that

article raised awareness about apraxia, learning disabilities, CAPD

and speech and language disorders.

I don't know if President Bush at one point had a learning

disability or a speech and language disorder, perhaps he never did

and he just sounds like that to some because he is from Texas. If

he did have/does have some type of LD or speech impairment and he

overcame it, that would be an inspiration to children that have LDs

or speech and language impairments all over. He grew up

to be President of the US -how cool is that?! (all political views

aside -just the fact)

There are many famous people who have a history of various types of

speech and language disorders or learning disabilities who have

learned to overcome them and succeed. There are many who come

forward to talk about this in hopes of helping others, and some who

choose not to talk about it to the public -like Barbara Walters.

(and Suzi if you never saw the Sponge Bob episode about Texas with

Sandy -you 'have' to see it! -very funny!)

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[Guest guest]

Sandy is a favorite around here.

People always talk about Bush misquoting things. I've never heard

him mangling words on speeches or in debates, but I've read plenty

of articles about it. I figure all of us mangle our words at some

time, so I don't have any opinion on the President. I'm sure he

does, but I just don't know how often it is. I would hate to have

someone quoting me all the time, and examining the way I talk.

I do know people make fun of the way he talks, and I think people

are just not use to the Texas accent. The thing is his accent is

not as strong as a lot of places in Texas. I have a lot of

relatives in East Texas, and I can barely understand them when I'm

around them. My husband (the California native) had an even harder

time understanding them.

My sister-in-law is from a small town in central Texas. She is very

smart, a math wiz with a degree in computer science, is a VP of a

company, and when I first met her I could barely understand her.

After 20 years of living in Dallas, her accent is much less.

The one thing that always amazed my mom and I was that my sister-in-

law always made lots of grammatical errors in her speech, and she

just plain said things wrong. The reason why I am pointing this out

is that I was talking about to my mom. is constantly

making grammatical errors, and I've been working on that for the

past 6 months. My mom compared 's grammatical errors to my

sister-in-law. Most people would have thought my sister-in-law had

a speech problem. However, everyone in the town where she grew up

talks like my sister-in-law. They don't have speech problems.