It’s Verbiage, You Idiot!
Sep 22 2008 | Comments 6
This really depressed me. “Verbage”? Dear God. Please, John McC. Take good care of yourself.
liz | 3:09 PM | Uncategorized
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This really depressed me. “Verbage”? Dear God. Please, John McC. Take good care of yourself.
liz | 3:09 PM | Uncategorized
Liz Spikol was born in Philadelphia sometime in the 20th century. She started writing about her experience as a person with mental illness in 1999, while employed at Philadelphia Weekly as the paper’s managing editor. Aside from serving as that paper’s web editor, music editor, staff writer, senior editor, executive editor and a host of other random roles that she couldn’t make up her mind about, she has also worked as a Spanish teacher, as a Certified Peer Specialist during Philly’s system-wide transformation and as a communications specialist for a prison reform organization. Currently, she works at the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania and writes book reviews for PW. This blog — named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 and 2008 by PsychCentral — is about medications, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, OCD, PTSD, SAD (and many other acronyms), mad pride, Big Pharma, celebrities, hospitals, stigma and the recovery movement. And other stuff.
Palin is merely following in a fine elephant party tradition. When GW uses the word “nucular” I want to cry.
As much as I detest Sarah Palin’s politics, I must point out that on m-w.com there are two pronunciations, the second one being her pronunciation.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/verbiage
My people (friends, loved ones, neighborhood) are all very much looking forward to not voting for this unprepared anti-environmental budget-busting, lying, ‘I had a layover in an airport in Ireland so that makes me familiar with global relations’ Palin or her flipflopping sidekick Mccain. To riff on a commercial ad, I don’t hate her because she’s beautiful, I hate her because she’s just dimwitted enough to f*ck us all if Mccain was, not completely unlikely given his age and so forth, to kick the bucket.
I didn’t bug out so much over her verbiage but those motivational speaker hand gestures drive.me.up.a.tree. I don’t trust those purposeful knuckles joined together just as we all could be together if you’ll only try this Kool-Aid moves, either.
McBeth, your post cracked me up!
I must be jaded. I’m not even horrified anymore. Palin’s semiliterate. I teach English this week and I write with red Bic pens all over freshman papers with those kind of absurdities. We are looking at a potential President who can’t outwrite a community college student in Jersey. God forgive us all. I guess I’m not jaded, simply disgusted.
Yeah, I noticed that too, but then, being hyperlexic, I notice *everyone’s* mispronunciations. Her “verbage” sounds like “garbage”. And if meaningless, stupid hand gestures drive you up a tree, check out Henry Paulsen being interviewed sometime! We’re trusting this idiot with $700 billion ???
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