Bushism

[Dingo Jellybean]

If you had someone write down your spoken words exactly as you speak them, you'd probably be rather surprised how almost incoherent they are. That's the nature of spoken language. We studied it a bit in a linguistics class I took. We think much faster than we can talk, and we parse language in a way that we hear what we're expecting to hear, for the most part. You can mix up words and leave them out, and the context carries your message across, along with nonverbal communication and whatnot. One good example is the Watergate tapes. This is what natural conversation looks like.

True, but the big difference is that these speeches are prepared. They are thoroughly checked for accuracy and intent of meaning. To slaughter prepared speeches that Bush has done so many times only makes him more susceptible to ridicule than anyone else.