Trump Speaks Like Regular Folk

[TheRealJoeFish]

I couldn't help but laugh. The irony here is that it's well known that Hillary's accent and language use magically changes depending on which side of the Mason-Dixon Line she's giving a speech.

So does mine. I don't do it consciously, but get me around my black relatives and I'm a little more...let's say... ebonically tilted. Even just me and my dad and brother get a little funky around each other.

They say this happens to just about everyone. Now, of course, some people may play it up, but it's a common anecdote among news and TV people who have overcome their natural accent and affected a more "generic" accent that when they return home it takes a matter of hours before the old pronunciations come flooding back. Hell, when I went to London for a week a few years ago it was a day or two before the H disappeared in my "hello" and the I got a lot softer in "right".

A related term is Register Switching, effectively the name for subconsciously using a different vocabulary/set of grammar rules in different social settings. This is, again, almost impossible not to do: we talk to our boss, our dad, a stranger in a suit, and a stranger in tattered clothes differently.

And then there's code switching, which is using different languages/dialects within the same conversation, alternating between languages in different sentences or for different words. Sometimes, people even alternate *within a word*, adding a descriptive prefix or suffix in one language to a base word in another!

Ok that's the end of my tangent. Linguistics is really cool.

[Minimalist]

The thin-skinned orange baboon can't wait to beat up Michael Bloomberg.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics...-1.2730295

Donald Trump threatens to ‘hit’ several DNC speakers 'so hard' over their critical speeches

Yeah, this is the kind of fuckface you want on the world stage!  And who is he kidding.  He couldn't hit a pillow with those little hands.  He'd have to hire some of his mafia friends to do the job.

[Aroura]

The thin-skinned orange baboon can't wait to beat up Michael Bloomberg.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics...-1.2730295

Donald Trump threatens to ‘hit’ several DNC speakers 'so hard' over their critical speeches

Yeah, this is the kind of fuckface you want on the world stage!  And who is he kidding.  He couldn't hit a pillow with those little hands.  He'd have to hire some of his mafia friends to do the job.

This is a great example.  What happens when another world leader insults Trump?  Even perhaps completely on accident? Will he threaten to punch them, or perhaps even get so upset he does so?  
Even just saying he wants to, in public, is something a normal person might do, but not something the president should do.

[Rayaan]

Another thing, why would you consider talking like a regular person as a good quality for president?  I want a president that talks like, you know, a president. I'd prefer that the person that will be traveling around the world as an ambassador for me and my country can speak more eloquently than a fourth grader.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politic...story.html

http://www.livescience.com/54035-donald-...asses.html

The 18th century German poet Christoph Martin Wieland wrote, "To be not as eloquent would be more eloquent." Aristotle said that uneducated tend to people speak more simply, "which makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences."

Lesson: Oftentimes, simplicity is more effective than eloquence.

[Minimalist]

Don't confuse "simplicity" with that "simpleton" Rayaan.  Hitler was great at telling the great unwashed what they wanted to hear, too.

What happens when another world leader insults Trump?

War, of course.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Simple speech is fine. Simple thinking is not. Trump has demonstrated a mastery of the former. He's also demonstrated a penchant for the latter.

[Fake Messiah]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az1JyDJ_iKU

[henryp]

Calling Clinton "Qualified" always makes me think of those head coaches in sports who always lose, but keep getting jobs because they've got head coaching experience.

[Pat Mustard]

The thin-skinned orange baboon can't wait to beat up Michael Bloomberg.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics...-1.2730295

Donald Trump threatens to ‘hit’ several DNC speakers 'so hard' over their critical speeches

Yeah, this is the kind of fuckface you want on the world stage!  And who is he kidding.  He couldn't hit a pillow with those little hands.  He'd have to hire some of his mafia friends to do the job.

Actually I thought it was a confession that he was into self harm. Who else do you know is so small?

[CWoods]