Burninating the Peasants

Does the president know English? From Tuesday's NYT:

Mr. Bush, who does not often take questions after his prepared speeches, was asked by one member of the audience why he invoked the attacks of Sept. 11 as a justification for the invasion of Iraq when "no respected journalist or other Middle Eastern experts confirm that such a link existed."

The president responded that "there was a serious international effort to say to Saddam Hussein, 'You're a threat,' and the Sept. 11 attacks extenuated that threat." Mr. Bush added that "knowing what I know today, I'd make the decision again."

"Extenuated"? What was he even trying to say? Not accentuated. Exacerbated, maybe?  Seriously, the prez has been listening to too much Megadeth.

Got one chance, infiltrate them
Get it right, terminate them
The Panzers will, permeate them
Break their pride, denigrate them
And their people, retrograde them
Typhus, detriate them
Epidemic, devastate them
Take no prisoners, cremate them

That should really say "Typhus, deteriate them", as though "deteriorate" were a transitive verb that inexplicably dropped a syllable. Um, and, the President is fucking retarded. Wait, maybe he meant to say "burninate"?

Comments

[Keith]

He should be tried at the Hague for crimes against the English language.

[ajay]

Well, personally I think the President's English skills are perfectly cromulent.

[aaron]

excardon me, but maybe an old denominator, like bush needs to call in for a free canceltation next time.

[Luke]

Perhaps he should do something to incribit his vocabulary?

Though the idea of a W. with command of the English Language worries me; how many terrible things could he state clearly if he knew how to use his tongue?

Cheers

L

[mikez]

He was simplest speeching American, Texan-via-Andover dialect.

[ben wolfson]

That should really say "Typhus, deteriate them", as though "deteriorate" were a transitive verb that inexplicably dropped a syllable.

The best transitivizing of a verb (phrase) of which I'm aware is that of "run amok", as in, "Batman was running me amok".

[arcseed]

'Deteriate' still has too many syllables, I'm afraid. Of course, anyone with any sense would try to find a completely different verb, but...

My favorite Megadeth moment is still including 'thermatology' in the list of "Five Magics".

[Ray Davis]

Yesterday as I walked past the Gender & Women's Studies Department to the Men's Room (or, as we like to call it, the Little Gender and Women's Studies Room), I heard a sincerely upper crust voice declaring "... my problem is I'm very discriminatory in my selection process...."

English is lovely for those fine craggy differences that connotations can grow around like little chiba pets.

[Cags]

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