If there’s a place where a schwa or any other slurred slack sound can conceivably go, we’ll use it. It’s just easier than actually shaping your lips and throat to make a normal vowel. The New Busy doesn’t have time for the other vowels.
For another example, who actually bothers to say “I don’t know” anymore? We say “aowunh” – but with not nearly so many phonemes as that spelling may suggest; it’s just one syllable.
WarrenM
2903
I can’t look at her without being filled with a feeling of revulsion which isn’t really conducive to finding her hot.
Put me down for “No.” She’s got that horrifying combination of harsh plastic features, stupidity, and regurgitated talking points that are really popular on Fox. That’s anything but hot.
However, I will say that her change in appearance lends credence to the rumor that she had some surgery done recently. Something about her reminds me of that robotic looking chick on Entertainment Tonight way back in the day.
Well, she’s hot in a milfy sort of way if you didn’t also know she was also completely vapid, and a pox on rational thought in the United States.
As for the plasticy/robotic features, I don’t really notice that. Perhaps that’s just a projection for her robotic talking points and platitude autoresponder.
Raife
2906
I wonder if she would pass the Turing test.
Alan doesn’t think she’s hot either.
He’s got his reasons, though.
corsair
2908
Tom did stipulate, better looking, not better thinking. He’ll just will have to put a sock (or whatever) in her mouth so she doesn’t start prattling non-sequitur pre-programmed talking points at inopportune moments.
Or maybe that’s a turn on for him. “Talk dirty to me, Sarah, I wanna hear right-wing rhetoric…oooooo, yes, Obama’s doesn’t have a US birth certificate…shooting animals from helicopters is erotic, yes, that’s it, you betchya baby…” (we leave this sordid scene while we still can)
However, I will say that her change in appearance lends credence to the rumor that she had some surgery done recently. Something about her reminds me of that robotic looking chick on Entertainment Tonight way back in the day.
Should I admit I never watch her and thus wouldn’t know about cosmetic changes?
Heh. It would be unusually easy to write a pretty convincing Turing-Test-AI that talked like a right-wing pundit… unlike a normal human being, you wouldn’t have to work out how to get them to respond to what the other person was saying, and you could work up a set of standard phrases and assertions on a fairly limited range of topics…
bago
2910
That and the terminal “Also”.
The left-wing had this too. It was called Air America without Al Franken.
Hmmmm, it’s true, there’s something weird about her jowls in that video. I’d say she’d had work done since the election.
I don’t know everyone that was on Air America, but I don’t remember Rachel Maddow being like that.
Sarah Palin made up a new word when Tweeting about the proposed mosque near the WTC site.
Ground Zero Mosque supporters: doesn’t it stab you in the heart, as it does ours throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, pls refudiate
Obviously only non-peaceful Muslims would support that mosque’s location…
She then tries to correct herself:
Peaceful New Yorkers, pls refute the Ground Zero mosque plan if you believe catastrophic pain caused @ Twin Towers site is too raw, too real.
Lastly, she tries to equate herself to Shakespeare because he too made up words!
“Refudiate,” “misunderestimate,” “wee-wee’d up.” English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!
The Bard is a great master of the English language. Stephen Colbert coined the word “truthiness” but he’s a brilliant satirist. Palin is neither brilliant nor a satirist nor a master of the English language.
There is a #PalinAsShakespeare game going on Twitter because of that. My favorite one, because it was a great callback to pre-Palin McCain:
“Alas, poor John McCain, I knew him, a fellow of infinite homes”
I did a few too, but none that good.
“Out, damned Levi! Out, I say! All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little Bristol, also.”
“Friends, Real Americans, Moose, lend me your ears; I come to bury John McCain, not get him elected.”
“Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by nothing, because we live in Alaska.”
“O happy Levi! Bristol is thy sheath. There rust, and let her conceive.”
“Shall we their racist placards see? Lord, what fools these teabaggers be!”
“Thus I clothe my naked villany/With odd old ends stol’n out of holy writ/And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.”
Mayhap Sarah hath played us all for fools.
S’truth. Iambic Pentameter for the win.
Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!
Celebrate what, illiteracy?
Damn you intellectuals and your fancy correct spelling and grammar!
Clearly Twitter is part of the great liberal media conspiracy.
It is time to take our country back from those five syllabullshit words that communists and other freedom haters love to brag about!
